Freakin out these other people in line for brunch by jumping up and down about this badass line of reasoning in FoR.
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The Fabric of Reality.
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A substantial amount of computation is needed to give us the illusion of performance, therefore the app is performant.
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"substantial amount of computation" would need to be defined. Is that defined in time or in energy? Turtles?! ;)
Sort of: this is more about refuting generalized solipsism; he actually has a more explicit rephrasing of that in this chapter:
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likewise, at what point do the models of other people in our minds themselves become conscious? Origin of ghost concept?
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Depends on your definition of "conscious." Requires more autonomy / agency? Some think Greeks literally hallucinated gods.
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