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    Simulations, Skepticisms, and Transcendental Arguments
    International Journal for the Study of Skepticism. forthcoming.
    I have developed transcendental arguments to refute several versions of Nick Bostrom’s simulation hypothesis. I called some of these arguments the SIM-style argument. In this paper, I have four main aims. First, I employ the SIM-style argument to remedy a defect in Hilary Putnam’s Brain-in-vat argument. Second, I show that the most radical skepticism, which Tim Button called the nightmarish Cartesian skepticism, can be refuted by the SIM-style argument or by another transcendental argument I dev…Read more
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    Why we are not living in the computer simulation
    International Journal for the Study of Skepticism. 2022.
    Nick Bostrom considered a number of simulations and contended that the probability that we are living in one of them is high or at least nonzero. I present arguments to refute the claim that we are or might be in any one of them. Here is a highly dense reasoning why we are not in the simulation: Suppose Simon is in the simulation, and he entertains the idea that he is in the simulation. And he thinks about the word 'apple'. But since he is always in the simulation, he has never interacted with a…Read more
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    The aim of this paper is to undermine or even refute the notion of predictability, especially the predictability of mind by examining three scenarios presupposing predictability. The first scenario is developed by Stefan Rummens and Stefaan E. Cuypers whose aim was to show that the general notion of predictability is self-defeating by indicating that there is a paradox in this scenario. I will point out that some restrictions must be made for the paradox to hold. By analyzing the second scenario…Read more