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The Metaverse, Virtual Worlds, and the Problems of Philosophy | David Chalmers

Hidden Forces

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Is It a Simulator or a God?

i think it depends on whether you've got like, ands on god, or our hands off god. If we're in a simulation, ou simulator created all this. They may be able to control all this. That some of the properties of a traditional god. Does that mean that they are thereby controlling us? I would say that's bad whether it's a simulator or a god, in a nonsimulated world. But if it's a simulation tus lets us get set up and then lets us go, lets us build our own free will...that's no worse thangod giving us free will. So again, i think it's not the simulation that makes it good

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