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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 Simulation in the Cosmos

"We don't know the universe is big we see galaxies in the sky but really we see photons that have recently reached us," he says. "I'm thinking it's gonna be hard to just to simulate like a like New York City because there's so many people leaving and coming back" But maybe beyond a certain point you can run a very cheap simulation of the rest of the universe, writes Hawking. 'Every now and then maybe the science maybe the simulator say hi they've just made a new discovery,' he adds.

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