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#293 – Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion – How Evolution Hid the Truth
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is There a Creator in Simulations?
Nick Bostrom's idea about the simulation is typically couched in a physicalist framework. So you have the hard problem of consciousness, right? The standard hard problem, how could a computer simulation create a constant, which isn't explained by that simulation theory. But then the next level, the entities that are created in the first level simulation then can write their own simulations and you get this nesting.
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