This simulation we're living in is really, really freakin' weird.
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I don't prefer the simulation hypothesis.
It'd be far more weird and wonderful if it isn't that.
(Although, if it is, we're only bumping the weirdness up the chain).
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Depends on who you presume is driving the simulation. If you presume that it's the awareness driving it internally, making its own holographic projections in order to make sense of the sensory input it's receiving, that's a different story that some externally created simulation.
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Or if we presume that consciousness is a quantum phenomenon, the awareness could just be constantly selecting from emerging sets of probabilities, which then manifest as experiences.
I mean, contemplating all the different versions of this can get pretty weird in itself.
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It can get weirder too: presume that the quantum-chooser and the quantum-chosen are the same thing. So everything that exists is all just one self-altering, self-projecting entity.
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But where could it be projecting itself? Perhaps into another dimension. So the aspect that is choosing and projecting could be in one dimension, and the projection in another. Same being, different dimension.
(This is all just metaphysical speculation, of course.)
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Ah.
I was thinking you were advocating for the traditional simulation argument, and not also "consciousness as localized and/or distributed simulation", which is an argument I'm sympathetic to.
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I kind of think the traditional simulation theory as a result of a partial investigation and the failure to point awareness at itself.
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Yeah. In its original form, it reeks of "this would make sense, so it must be true,"
hence why I don't rate it.
But consciousness itself is so full of bugs and artefacts that it's hard to discount the thesis that *it* is computed somehow.
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