[mynameishere]

You know, I always figured that a computer-simulated world would have smart compression techniques. Thus, the massive quantity of electrons flying around necessary for a brain impulse, for instance, only "exists" when someone does an MRI (or whatever tool they use for that sort of thing). Otherwise, a reference to "pleasure" or "pain" is passed into the perceptions.

[byrneseyeview]

So the Singularity is when we abstract out all the stuff that only exists to trick us into thinking we've evolved from more primitive beings?