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I interpreted the parent comment as: Artifacts of the virtual machine that physics / biology / chemistry "executes" on (i.e. the universe and potentially minute

I interpreted the parent comment as: Artifacts of the virtual machine that physics / biology / chemistry "executes" on (i.e. the universe and potentially minute physical properties we aren't aware of) may be reflected at the macro-scale in the "output" (life).

dekhn 5y ago
That doesn't make any sense from a scientific perspection, and reality is not a virtual machine that physics executes on.
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- burnished 5y ago
  What would be the difference?
- krageon 5y ago
  > reality is not a A. You don't know this, because it's (quite possibly) unprovable B. Charitably, it was meant as a metaphor