Ep 124: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 6 “Universality and the limits of Computation”
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The Ultimate Virtual Reality Generator
The ultimate virtual reality generator would have to be capable of doing that. We need a further technological trick to extend its repertoire as far as is physically possible. If the human brain were like an electronic computer, this would simply be a matter of changing the rate at which its clock emits synchronizing pulses. No doubt, the brain's clock will not be so easily controlled. But again, this presents no problem of principle. The laws of physics do not prohibit this from happening, so it must be possible given the right knowledge.
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