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Depends what you mean by "go there", and whether they are in a simulation. Consider that if we're in a simulation, we're code, and an "escape" would involve ge
by vidarh 3y ago
Depends what you mean by "go there", and whether they are in a simulation.
Consider that if we're in a simulation, we're code, and an "escape" would involve getting out of a sandbox and perhaps being able to access their version of the Internet, and move around in it.
In that sense we might well be able to "go there".
Now imagine they're in a simulation, in which case their entire corporeal experience is code. There'd be nothing inherently making it impossible for us to escape our sandbox and theirs and find a way to give ourselves bodies in "their" simulation in that case.
Of course we're now firmly in science fiction - the odds rapidly stacking up against it [in fact, I have bunch of half-baked notes on a short story collection based on the premise of stacked simulations and increasingly weird scenarios around that...]
But that's what makes it a fun thought experiment.
- steve1977 3y ago> There'd be nothing inherently making it impossible for us to escape our sandbox and theirs and find a way to give ourselves bodies in "their" simulation in that case. But we would still be code and in a simulation. Just in a different simulation.
- vidarh 3y agoIf we're code, and it for all practical purposes is indistinguishable from what we consider reality, what does it matter? Though if we knew, and had a way out, we'd then have a choice to make if we're satisfied with that or want to try to see if there is another layer outside that again. Of course, if we can't find an "escape" it isn't proof that there is nothing outside.
- steve1977 3y agoIf you knew there was a „higher dimension of existence“ but you also knew you can never be part of it, maybe you would rather not know it in the first place?