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Imagine living in a virtual reality and hearing that the reality is just a computation. Would it be metaphysical? Not really, because it does not speak about anything but the computation which, by construction, is the reality of such universe. It claims no knowledge of the computer implementation details which are mot reflected in the computation, like its power consumption or the color of the chassis, or even the fact that a chassis might exist. I think that sticking to intuitive and customary notions of reality when experimental data contradict them is not scientific. Science is all about building a better model that fits more and more experimental data points as tightly as possible. If such model introduces notions that the mundane experience entirely lacks, while still describing these mundane phenomena perfectly, it's time to admit that the reality is indeed "weird", and it's your mundane intuitions which are wrong (or, rather, apply narrowly). Also, the end result of science is the math that fits the experiments, that is, the model of reality, the language of it is math. You can ask whether there's something behind that math, like you might ask whether there's something behind the computations in a virtual reality universe. I assume we can't see past this border with scientific means, only with metaphysical. |