Questions tagged [simulation]
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Is it possible to simulate a reality like ours using other logic than classical logic?
Are there alternative logical systems that could serve as a foundation for simulating a reality similar to ours, given that non-classical logics such as paraconsistent logic, while applicable in ...
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What is a functional relationship?
By a "functional relationship" I mean "the way" a part of a system interacts with the rest of the system. In a certain sense it "doesn't matter" how the part of the ...
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Must the simulation argument assume there are other human-civilizations in our universe?
The simulation argument by Nick Bostrom seems to take for granted that there are (or will be) many other human-level civilizations in our universe.
For example the first of the three options in the ...
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What's the motivation for organisms to reproduce (in a natural-selection simulation)?
I'm currently working on a neuro-evolution genetic algorithm where I create small organisms with simple neural networks which can move around a 2d space with randomly distributed food. I spawn a bunch ...
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How to distinguish the species of „real“ persons from the species of simulated persons?
Today I learned from an academic talk given by Prof. Gilles Brassard (Montreal): In the context of artificial intelligence one discusses not only civilizations (level 1) which are simulated by ...
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Why does Nick Bostrom's simulation argument use "close to zero" rather than just "zero"?
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Nick Bostrom’s Simulation Argument can effectively be reduced to just two options:
Either (1) close to zero civilisations reach a post-human stage and run many ...
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