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Detecting a Bostromian Simulation

Detecting a Bostromian Simulation

Any information source produces stochastic patterns with 'codes'

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David Chalmers thinks we probably would not — perhaps in-principle — be able to determine if we’re in a simulation. Everything in it — even ‘the physical’ — would be simulated. No amount of reductionist physics could get to the bottom of the ontology and find the simulator and its structure.

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