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Re:Scientists are looking for ways to put the simulation hyp... by recursive on Thursday October 04, 2018 @04:38PM (#18143456)
It seems like a silly argument. The physics of the outer universe are not bound by the rules of the inner universe. From the perspective of the inner universe, we can never hope to deduce facts about the outer universe based on out observations.
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Re:Scientists are looking for ways to put the simulation hyp... by coldtea on Thursday October 04, 2018 @06:32PM (#18144267)
And yet we already impose other rules onto our own universe not deducible by the universe itself, like e.g. logical consistency.

Why not expand them to any possible external universe?

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