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Re:Constraints on the Universe as a Numerical Simulation (2012) by astrodust on Friday October 14, 2016 @12:53PM (#12709372)
What if the simulation is actually being "run" inside an entity or organism that was the natural product of its environment?
Re:Constraints on the Universe as a Numerical Simulation (2012) by GavinMcG on Friday October 14, 2016 @01:01PM (#12709438)
Still, human intelligence would be simulated within that, presumably. So the platform might not be the obvious one, but the software would still be theoretically possible.

That, or there's some interface to that platform that provides a source of intelligence. Maybe we're nothing more than Docker containers running on God's hardware.

Re:Constraints on the Universe as a Numerical Simulation (2012) by fredfoobar on Friday October 14, 2016 @01:04PM (#12709463)
So, like a dream?