Ep 124: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 6 “Universality and the limits of Computation”
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Is There Any Room for Magic in a Comprehensible Reality?
To any one who understands what virtual reality is, even genuine magic would be indistinguishable from technology. For there is no room for magic in a comprehensible reality. Anything that seems incomprehensible is regarded by science merely as evidence there is something we have not yet understood. Any of their evolving explanations of their narrow world could reach into an outside reality. If the high technology jailers wanted to be confident that their rendered environment would forever fool their prisoners into thinking there is no outside world they would have their work cut out for them.
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