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cybereality
8 years agoGrand Champion
I think it's an interesting idea, but one that ultimately doesn't change what reality actually is. I mean, if we assume we are in a simulation, that doesn't make our experience less "real". Clearly we have thoughts and feelings, and some sort of consciousness, and that alone makes what we experience real. An advanced computer running a reality simulation would have physical processes in the chips it's running on. These physical process themselves, for example electricity moving from place to place on the chip, would be active in the ultimate reality, so whether our thoughts are electrical firing in our heads, or on some future supercomputer, the result is the same. The computation in either case is running in the ultimate reality, even if we are, ourselves, in a simulation, or a simulation of a simulation. So what most people consider reality is still "real" just maybe not in the way they assume but real nonetheless.