A, maybe ingenuous, question: how could we know that the world in which the simulation runs resembles many similarities to our own? I can imagine e.g. us running a simulation of Conway’s game of life. It could be possible that what we think should be hard to simulate in our world is instead rather easy in a world running od different physics. Is there any source on this subject?
Of course. It was Fredkin who suggested we live in a natural simulation, decades ago, The world he called “Other” was of a different physics and we would be in a simulation running in that Other universe.
Highly more likely than that we have some humanoid programmers above. I guess,
Thank you for the answer. I often have the impression that in this kind of discussion the Other universe is taken to be very similar to ours for apparently no particularly good reason, and I was wondering if I was missing something.
A, maybe ingenuous, question: how could we know that the world in which the simulation runs resembles many similarities to our own? I can imagine e.g. us running a simulation of Conway’s game of life. It could be possible that what we think should be hard to simulate in our world is instead rather easy in a world running od different physics. Is there any source on this subject?
Of course. It was Fredkin who suggested we live in a natural simulation, decades ago, The world he called “Other” was of a different physics and we would be in a simulation running in that Other universe.
Highly more likely than that we have some humanoid programmers above. I guess,
Thank you for the answer. I often have the impression that in this kind of discussion the Other universe is taken to be very similar to ours for apparently no particularly good reason, and I was wondering if I was missing something.