Based Camp: What's Behind the Fabric of Reality?

Join Malcolm and Simone as they dive into an intriguing thought experiment about the nature of reality, existence, and the universe. Is math truly independent of our perceived reality? Can an equation exist before it's graphically represented? Are we living in a self-simulating reality, or as some may say, a simulation?

This profound conversation will make you question everything you thought you knew about our existence, and ponder about the possibility of multiple realities. They also touch on the concept of determinism, secular Calvinism, and how these ideas can be reconciled with a atheistic understanding of truth and metaphysics. Don't miss out on this captivating exploration into the depths of theoretical reality!

Based Camp - Reality Math

Malcolm: [00:00:00] It's a very lightweight theory for sort of the fundamental metaphysics of reality.

Malcolm: And it's, it's really one that I have a pretty high confidence is true just because it's lightweight and it makes predictions . Fun side note about the theory. I have had multiple people offer to sleep with me after I have told them this theory. What? That, yeah. That was a weird thing in college after I had it, this happened on two different occasions.

Malcolm: I was hanging out with

Simone: a way to bury the lead. Who cares about the nature of reality? This has, how to pick up chicks. Come on Malcolm, let's focus on the stuff that matters here.

Would you like to know more?

Simone: Hi, gorgeous.

Malcolm: Hello Simone. This is gonna be a fun one cuz this is a big pet theory of mine. It is, it is where I'm gonna go crazy and I'm gonna label this something crazy. Simone today was laughing at some of my titles for videos cuz she hadn't seen them. Like, the one for, for. Our marriage contract sign on the bottom line and Simone's all like, [00:01:00]

Simone: yeah.

Simone: Yeah. But what we're about to talk about, I always, I, I, I joke with Malcolm about this a lot because there's this amazing YouTube channel called Down the Rabbit Hole, and one of the documentaries or videos is. Is on this crazy guy who has this like theory about the time cube and everything's like cube based logic.

Simone: And ever since we watched that video, I make fun of Malcolm saying like he has pile based logic because he totally doesn't believe in like folding clothes or putting anything away. Like he has a separate room for his like office and bedroom and is, it is just piles, everything is piles. I have,

Malcolm: I have like buckets like, like literally like these big plastic bins that I just throw my clothes in.

Malcolm: Yeah. And my system for clothes is all of the clothes I'm actively using. There's two buckets. So I can dig through one bucket and throw it in the other bucket as I look for what I want that day. It's, there's not even

Malcolm: I would be completely, I. Boned, if I didn't have you in my life. Simone, actually, we wanted to start [00:02:00] this thing where we're gonna end our videos with little snippets from our lives. We created this great video of at least on YouTube, I mean on the podcast, you know, the people aren't gonna be able to see it, but to force people to build a, parasocial relationship with them.

Malcolm: So we're going to at the end of this one, I'm gonna try to get that one of you cleaning up. Oh God. So people can see how useless I am at anything.

Simone: No. Well, while I'm doing that, you're watching the, the nuggets.

Malcolm: So I'm playing with my kids, I'm playing with my kids. I have. Brainwashed you into believing that's work.

Malcolm: But again, how many housewives have done the same thing? You know? I

Simone: mean but yeah. So yeah. I have to say though, like when, when I try to get you in, actually like hang something up, I'm like, oh, it's, but there's sky piles. It's a sky pile. It's a, and not, you're not hanging it, it's just a sky pile.

Simone: That's how I got you to do strategy walks. Remember, it's like, you're like, I don't wanna go on a walk. I'm like, oh, but it's strategy walk. So that's, that's why we should, that's why we should go on it. But anyway, you actually have a time cube [00:03:00] kind of theory of reality Yeah. Of

Malcolm: your own. I have a time cube theory of reality, and I mm-hmm.

Malcolm: Genuinely, like with our future police thing, I'm like, I don't really know if this is true or not. Whatever. Like it's pro I, I, I like 70%. I, I've convinced myself

Simone: to believe it. You confirmation biased our way into kind of believing it. Yeah. But we also know that we've confirmation biased our way into believing it.

Simone: Yeah, well,

Malcolm: Maybe the future police made us do that, but anyway confirmed with this one. This one is, is, is quite different. This one, I'm actually fairly certain that this is actually how reality is structured. Break it down,

Simone: friend.

Malcolm: Okay. So it goes with a few premises. , it goes like, if you believe these premises, this is the logical outcome of these premises. First math. Is not dependent on our reality. And by that what I mean is in every possible universe if there are multiple universes, two plus two always equals four. And obviously you can change the rules of [00:04:00] math like using

Non-Euclidean

Malcolm: math,

Malcolm: to mean that it, it has different outcomes like math on a sphere versus math on a plane, right? That's gonna be different, but that's still within the confines that you give the math two things. And two things is always four things. And so when I accept this, that means that math must exist outside our reality as we perceive it.

Malcolm: So essentially sort of like all equations kind of exist outside of our reality as truisms. The second thing that I take as true, I. Is that the thing a mathematical equation represents, exists as an emergent property of that equation? So let me explain what I mean by this. So if you have a graphical line, like I can write an equation that is used to describe a line with, if this is true, it means that that line exists.

Malcolm: As [00:05:00] a property of that equation, even before I physically graph that line.

Malcolm: Finally, so this is just three assumptions I'm making here. four, if you include my assumption that.

Malcolm: Because mass exists across reality that mass exists outside of any individual reality. So four assumptions of you include that, but I'm only having four assumptions here. So the fourth is that our reality, the way things interact in our reality can be described with an equation or set of interlinked equations.

Malcolm: Now this is not something that physics has found yet. Okay? So this is a predictive assumption. About something physics will find that physics has not yet found, but is making this predictive assumption. Okay. And, and by that what I mean is we keep finding like if you go into physics and, and, and you dig into particle physics or something like that, we keep finding that forces that originally [00:06:00] appeared to be two different forces, . Like magnetism and electricity or the small force in electricity later turn out to just be the same thing. Once you go higher in the equation. Now physics has not yet, like there's the, the concept of the unifying the