Q&A: When Did the Supernatural Event Happen
When Did the Supernatural Event Happen
Question
There is an assumption that at Mount Sinai the supernatural event of the giving of the Torah took place, and since the Exodus from Egypt, more or less no supernatural events have occurred.
But there is a certain probability (just as an example; you can construct many scenarios) that the world is nothing but a simulation, and that human beings are brains in a jar, with electrodes deceiving their senses and creating the illusion of an existing world, when it is only a simulation.
Given this possibility, there is some unknown probability that the initial state of the universe was simply programmed two seconds ago, and everything we remember never happened—in particular the revelation and the event at Mount Sinai.
And this is also connected to the saying that if someone created us, he surely wants us to do something. In this case, we were perhaps “created” for some technical reason—just because some person wanted to run a simulation of some universe for an unknown specific purpose, and not in order to give the world a Torah that would improve it.
In short, there is an unknown probability that the Torah was never given by someone who wanted us to observe it.
Answer
Know that you were programmed in such a way that I (who exist only in your consciousness) do not answer questions like these.
Discussion on Answer
There is also some probability that you really are Nebuzaradan who destroyed the Temple, and you lived a very long time, only your wiring got disconnected and your memory went out.
If so, there is some probability that you are to blame for the whole story of our exile. Why did you do it?
Nebuzaradan, because your question about the event at Mount Sinai is the smaller problem. Ask him more generally how we know that we know there is anything at all, etc.
Why not?