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Ep 124: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 6 “Universality and the limits of Computation”

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How to Discover the Origin and Attributes of Virtual Reality

In most virtual reality environments, no such explanation exists. The rendered objects do not originate there, but have been designed in the external reality. Once you had understood the laws sufficiently well, you would notice that the chess board is too simple an object to have thoughts - and consequently your own thought processes cannot be governed by the laws of chess alone. If life cannot evolve on the chess board, far less can intelligence evolve there.

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