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The compression algorithm is that reality only has to be simulated for one person: you, the reader of this comment.

• thendrill 6y ago
  This. In sense we are always thinking some cpu simulation. Where in fact can be more of edge computing case. As in you only need to simulate the whole personal experience. In computer graphics terms. Culling. Objects are not simulated if u have no direct observer.
  • skissane 6y ago
    > Objects are not simulated if u have no direct observer As Berkeley said, esse est percipi (to be is to be perceived) That's one of the reasons why the simulation argument interests me. I think it may give one a reason to choose idealism over materialism. Idealism has a greater "simulation resistance" than materialism has. To a materialist, the question of whether we are living in a simulation may seem profound. An idealist can just shrug their shoulders. A materialist has identified material reality as the most fundamental reality, and so the possibility that apparent material reality is not really the most fundamental reality does in some ways threaten the materialist worldview. For an idealist, for whom conscious minds and their experiences (qualia) are the most fundamental reality, the question of whether we are in a simulation is simply a question about whether their exist conscious minds who have the experience simulating us – and that may or may not be true, but either way it makes no difference to who or what we fundamentally are.