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| Feb 21, 2016 at 1:33 | comment | added | Conifold | Universe as a simulation may work for Deutsche but not for Tegmark, the problem simply shifts to what it means for the simulator to be a structure, there's no need to refute it. I like the joke but I have a different interpretation of it: what they all think of is a "reduction", which upon reflection is either unintelligible or incoherent :) Similar to naive realism and "rational metaphysics" that Kant dismantled in the antinomies. | |
| Feb 20, 2016 at 20:21 | history | answered | Jo Wehler | CC BY-SA 3.0 |