Simulation.
Simulation and quantum.
What the experiments allow, and what they do not. A correlation is not a message.
FACT is a checkable record. CLAIM is an argument. FAITH is what the Order holds, and does not ask you to treat it as proof.
Decoherence.
Decoherence does not require a conscious observer.
Source. Standard quantum theory: the environment records which-path information. Consciousness is not a premise of the calculation.
The slits.
FACT Which-path information washes the fringes out. Decoherence does that. A conscious observer is not required, and this picture does not say a mind makes the world.
No signal.
Entanglement does not send a usable signal faster than light, and it does not send a signal into the past.
Source. The no-signaling theorem of quantum mechanics. A correlation is not a message.
Bell.
Bell tests have closed important loopholes. The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics went to Aspect, Clauser, and Zeilinger for experiments with entangled photons.
Source. Nobel Prize in Physics 2022. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2022/summary/
The CHSH number.
S = 2.828
FACT Local hidden variables cannot push a CHSH score past 2. Quantum mechanics can reach 2√2, about 2.828. The 2022 Nobel experiments are the fact on this page, not a proof that a mind builds the outcome.
The open problem.
The measurement problem is unsolved.
Source. Textbooks still distinguish collapse postulates, many-worlds, Bohmian mechanics, and other readings. No reading has been settled by experiment.
The trilemma.
Nick Bostrom’s 2003 simulation argument is a trilemma, not a finding that we live in a simulation.
Source. Nick Bostrom, “Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?”, Philosophical Quarterly 53 (2003).
The three-way switch.
“We live in a simulation.”
That sentence is not a result. Bostrom’s paper says that one of three propositions is true. It does not say which. The Order may hold the sentence as faith. It may not badge it as fact.