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It can’t get us there because there’s always another turtle. The simulation idea still leaves us with a base reality at the bottom of the turtle stack that is a brute fact. We can’t explain that with the simulation hypothesis. Were back to plain old physics with its fine tuning problem and quantum weirdness. A “comprehensive understanding of reality” is a chimera. Reality is too vast. It’s certainly not containable within any computer, however enormous or advanced.

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Pierz Newton-John
Pierz Newton-John

Written by Pierz Newton-John

Writer, coder, former psychotherapist, founding member of The School Of Life Melbourne. Essayist for Dumbo Feather magazine, author of Fault Lines (fiction).

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