If we're living in a simulation, why would the simulation creators allow the sims to ponder and speculate whether or not they live in a simulation?
If we're living in a simulation, why would the simulation creators allow the sims to ponder and speculate whether or not they live in a simulation?
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Just because we’re living in a simulation doesn’t mean we are simulated. So perhaps the architects of the simulation can’t simply program our questions away.
Yes it does. What it might not mean is that we are intended.
Not necessarily. You're correct that we cannot account for intention. Neither can we assert whether we are simulated. Even if we can prove this reality is simulated we cannot be sure if we are part of the simulation or inserted into it (a la The Matrix) from our current position.
Exactly. For some people, maybe it’s part of the definition of a simulation that we are also simulated, but that’s not necessarily a part of the definition. We could be a part of it, or we could be an audience or consumers of it. Occupants. Whatever.