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Why would a simulated being expect to see atoms in their universe? Their physical theories would be a result of whatever experiments they can do from where they
by cylon13 8y ago
Why would a simulated being expect to see atoms in their universe? Their physical theories would be a result of whatever experiments they can do from where they're sitting.
What's so special about our physics that we would expect any possible consistent universe to be built this way? Maybe we're being simulated in a vastly different parent universe with more available computational power.
- tokyodude 8y agoYou're now basically saying "because magic!". Sure the outer universe could be based on something else but the thought experiment is that we'd be doing this in our universe. It doesn't require some other universe with magic unknown properties, it requires first that we can do this in our universe to a sufficient level that NPCs in simulations in our universe can't easily see the issues.