God and his simulated creation?
Join Date: Mar 2005
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also if anyone who doubts our reality could be simulated due to the vast computational power it would require, remember that it need not necessarily be a real-time simulation.
A monk with an abacus would be enough computer power to simulate our universe, it would just take an incredibly long time. But again a feature of a simulation is to the inhabitants of the simulated world, everything seems to happen in real-time, even if "God's" computer takes years to advance the sim one minute
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Originally Posted by Valhalla1
also if anyone who doubts our reality could be simulated due to the vast computational power it would require, remember that it need not necessarily be a real-time simulation.
A monk with an abacus would be enough computer power to simulate our universe, it would just take an incredibly long time. But again a feature of a simulation is to the inhabitants of the simulated world, everything seems to happen in real-time, even if "God's" computer takes years to advance the sim one minute