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25 | David Chalmers on Consciousness, the Hard Problem, and Living in a Simulation

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Importance of Simulating Simulations

In a perfect simulation any evidence we can get could be simulated right by being for the same experiences so I think we'll never get. decisive evidence that there is a God it's very hard to get conclusive evidence that there's not a God. Once you know the laws of physics well enough presumably we could set up a universe with boundary conditions like which are allowable boundary conditions for a universe like us sets up differential equation simulators on our on our maybe would need to be a quantum computer but then I don't see why in principle you couldn't getmaybe it'd be hard to get a universe as complex as our universe yeah we'd have next universe up.

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