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David Chalmers: Are We Living in a Simulation?

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The It From Bit Creation Hypothesis

The so called it from bit hypothesis, that atoms and the familiar entities of physics are grounded in a layer of digital physics. People who do digital physics don't think this is a way of saying, nothing exists. It's rather hard to imagine how the physic how this world around us could emerge from it. And so it's no more problematic in thinking of it as being just patterns of ones and zeros. The maths actually is a description of something more than the maths ahme doymen. Is that a good reason for being a panpsychist, or believing in some unknowable unknown structure? Or are you quite happy with the idea that there’s no ground at all

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