Your yearly dose of is-the-universe-a-simulation
Immanuel Kant foresaw all this. In his seminal work &quot;Critique of pure reason&quot; he argues that our pure reason, as opposed to the pure mind, always tries to look for the absolute, the absolute of all conditionals. This leads our reason to look beyond empirically observable objects. Those objects that have their origin only in pure reason is what he calls &quot;ideas&quot;. Those ideas can be separated into three categories, namely psychologia rationalis (Soul), cosmologia rationalis (World) and theologie transcendentaus (God, or Being of all Beings).<p>Ideas can never be proven or falsified for that matter. But they have their use: be a guideline for our living. This is where Kant&#x27;s famous practical philosophy stems from.