That shouldn’t matter though, as your decisions will still influence what those simplified simulations should predict. And so if you care about what happens in those simulations, or in response to those simulations, your decisions should take their existence and use into account. Your atoms are simulating the computations relevant to your decisions, and a simulation can directly consider those computations, without the intermediary of the atoms.
Arguably you are not your atoms, but the abstract considerations that shape your mind and decisions (and therefore that also shape what is happening to the atoms). Similarly to how the result of adding two numbers displayed on a calculator screen is shaped by the fact of their sum being a particular number, and this abstract fact also shapes the physical screen displaying the result. It’s possible to simulate everything that’s relevant about the calculator without considering its atoms, simply by knowing the abstract facts.
That shouldn’t matter though, as your decisions will still influence what those simplified simulations should predict. And so if you care about what happens in those simulations, or in response to those simulations, your decisions should take their existence and use into account. Your atoms are simulating the computations relevant to your decisions, and a simulation can directly consider those computations, without the intermediary of the atoms.
Arguably you are not your atoms, but the abstract considerations that shape your mind and decisions (and therefore that also shape what is happening to the atoms). Similarly to how the result of adding two numbers displayed on a calculator screen is shaped by the fact of their sum being a particular number, and this abstract fact also shapes the physical screen displaying the result. It’s possible to simulate everything that’s relevant about the calculator without considering its atoms, simply by knowing the abstract facts.