If this is a "simulation" whatever that means - if someone took out one brief, tiny slice of this reality, destroyed the rest, and just played the tiny slice of the simulation over and over - from the inside, would it change anything about your experience of the world?
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Maybe there’s something fundamental that wouldn’t be lost but would the phenomenological experience change, I think maybe,,, depends what exactly is meant by a ‘tiny slice’ of this reality
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Depends on the simulator rules & logic. Maybe who is ever running the simulation has the exact same question & is rerunning they same segment.
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A bit like Bertrand Russell's Five-minute hypothesis:
"There is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago, exactly as it then was, with a population that 'remembered' a wholly unreal past."
Time may be an illusion anyway.
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