At some point theorists will be be unable to avoid the conclusion that all advanced theories are known with minimal uncertainty to only make predictions with maximal uncertainty. The unfalsifiable theory will be the test of realness.
It will be at this same point that, with every experiment, experimentalists will confirm the unfalsifiable nature of each observation.
The distinction here will be that with falsification, one can make distinctions between falsifiable theory as to the theory with the least falsifications. However, as all new advanced theory becomes unfalsifiable, the new test will be which theory is the most general and the most uncertain as that will be what experimentalists see.
When plumbing the depths of realness, it becomes inescapable that an active observer within the system must necessarily admit to themselves that there is information about that system in which they reside that they can never observe. This attribute of the system is it’s own form of information about itself, and it can only ever hope to approach (yet never reach) some notion of falsification by way of it’s maximal uncertainty.
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