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I don't know where I'm going with this

I know there are objections to throwing things out to the community.

If the world is an infinite regress of simulations. Ie a matroyska doll that our world contains an infinte amount of other simulations below it , and our world is contained regressively within an infinite amount of other simulations above it.

What would happen if within one of those simulations someone switched of the simulations below it.

How does this effect an infinite regress, as now there is a base that there is nothing below it and everything above it?

What would happen if every simulation within that infinite regress were simultaneously switched off would that form a paradox between the reality of a regressive simulated universe and the result of an absence of a regressive simulated universe?

Can you therefore switch off or switch on an infinite regress of simulations?

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  • Lets's indulge in the magical thinking. Under the very reasonnable assumption that each of those worlds run more than 1 such simulation, switching one of this off wouldn't change anything. We would still have infinite simulations beyond and above.
    – armand
    Commented Oct 9 at 0:05
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    You can't have an infinite number of simulations, because a simulation that does zero computer operations isn't a simulation, doing one computer operation takes finite time and negentropy, infinity times finite equals infinity, and nobody has infinite negentropy to work with, let alone infinite patience.
    – g s
    Commented Oct 9 at 3:53
  • @armand what would happen if every simulation was turned off simultaneously?
    – 8Mad0Manc8
    Commented Oct 10 at 18:00
  • What happens when you turn off your computer, I guess.
    – armand
    Commented Oct 10 at 22:50
  • @armand how can you switch off a machine that you cannot switch on or is on by no others means than that it is not off? That's the paradox !!
    – 8Mad0Manc8
    Commented Oct 10 at 23:16

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