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Re:Simulation, Consciousness, Existence (1998) by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @12:02PM (#12498302)
I absolutely agree. But... the quantum mechanical "it doesn't really have a state until you observe it" could make sense as the simulation optimizing by skipping the parts that nobody can see.
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Re:Simulation, Consciousness, Existence (1998) by simonh on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @12:33PM (#12498674)
Except if that were the case the quantum system could have a determined state, it just doesn't. But the Kochen-Specker theorem[0] proves that it cannot have a determined state. Quite possibly in any universe, though I'm not sure if that's been proven yet.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kochen%E2%80%93Specker_theorem

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