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by Freestyler_3 4236 days ago
In a simulation where there are things such as awareness, there must be some sort of firewall protecting the computer from attempts to try and run our own software. First you would have to find out how this computer works, because it is nothing like ours.

I mean our simulations are just code running calculations, we don't have code that gives our programs a self awareness. I would say this would be many simulations, unless they are only running my point of view and you are all just simple code. You see we are all giving output then we are all small simulations together If it is just me then they are just looking at my output and you are just something I interact with, I cant tell if you can see, feel or make your own choices.

Anywho, whatever we are, we are.

And its not unrealistic for scientists to try and simulate something with as much detail as possible. If we simulate 3 planets, we give them a (to us) realistic colour representation. If you are simulating a world with beings that experience the simulations as if it was real life, you could easily make them all the same but not make them realise. But why wouldn't you make a real representation.