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Re:We Need to Find Out If We Are Living in a Simulation by ChrisGranger on Monday August 26, 2019 @08:00PM (#20804933)
It seems self-evident to me, although I'm willing to admit I'm wrong about this, that if the creators of the simulation we find ourselves in didn't want us to figure this out, we couldn't. The rules could be set up to prevent us from discovering the truth, and they could have caused a "blind spot" in our reasoning that prevents us from even realizing it.
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Re:We Need to Find Out If We Are Living in a Simulation by AnimalMuppet on Monday August 26, 2019 @08:06PM (#20804968)
Only if they're perfect.
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Re:We Need to Find Out If We Are Living in a Simulation by ChrisGranger on Monday August 26, 2019 @08:19PM (#20805042)
I don't think perfection would be required to set hard limits to a simulated being's ability to reason, although perfection would certainly seal the deal.

I'm just thinking that concepts x, y, and z could be forbidden, such that we couldn't think about them, nor even realize that we couldn't think about them. A circle around which our knowledge could expand without ever dipping into.

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