Just because a scientific theory isn't, at first glance, testable doesn't automatically make it philisophy. "Soft" ideas, in any field, are often what is needed to spark bigger ideas or get the ball rolling toward something tangible.
It's interesting to think about the idea that some people think everything can be explained mathematically. In theory, if we could make a "perfect" simulation of our own universe (which we are doing a little at a time), doesn't that make it more likely we could be a simulation? Just like if we can create simple life from its raw ingredients, doesn't that make it much more likely that "God" didn't create us? If we can do the basics of something ourselves, it seems much more likely that something smarter and/or longer-lived has already pulled it off.
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Just because a scientific theory isn't, at first glance, testable doesn't automatically make it philisophy. "Soft" ideas, in any field, are often what is needed to spark bigger ideas or get the ball rolling toward something tangible.
It's interesting to think about the idea that some people think everything can be explained mathematically. In theory, if we could make a "perfect" simulation of our own universe (which we are doing a little at a time), doesn't that make it more likely we could be a simulation? Just like if we can create simple life from its raw ingredients, doesn't that make it much more likely that "God" didn't create us? If we can do the basics of something ourselves, it seems much more likely that something smarter and/or longer-lived has already pulled it off.