>You are still talking about mapping the simulation to a representation that will make sense to you. I am talking about mapping that will make sense to anybody

>You are still talking about mapping the simulation to a representation that will make sense to you. I am talking about mapping that will make sense to anybody at all, be that inside or outside the simulation. If such mapping cannot be constructed, then how can we state that information about these computations exists in dust? The part about abacus is very good, but it is also very different from dust theory, since with abacus there is a process of computation, states are obtained one from another sequentially, and the positions of abacus beads are not random. In the case of dust the information about the simulation is clearly not contained in the dust, so it's unclear how dust can cause the simulation to exist. > It seems that information in our universe cannot exist without some physical medium isn't that simply due to the definition of the word exist?