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David Chalmers: The Hard Problem of Consciousness

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Is There a Level 42 Simulation?

You've said before that it might be, so you could think of it in turtles all the way down. We ourselves could also create another simulating universe. If we're indeed in a simulation within a simulation at level 42, what do you think level zero looks like? I would expect that level zero is truly enormous. So by the time you get down to us atlevel 42, maybe it's plenty of room for lots of simulations of finite capacity.

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