I you're really maybe missing the simulation business w.r.t. computing, etc. It's like cells in a dish debating the world outside them without any context of it.
It's pretty trivial to have this reality be a 'container', as it were, within some superset reality, regardless of the information density of said contained reality.
Think of it like a human body sort of being its own unique, low-entropic thing.
I personally like thinking that in one sense, we're all a bunch of bits of fleeting consciousness on the edge of some fractal of realities, and the 'substrate' is simply possibility itself.
After all, the mandelbrot fractal is drawn by which series terminate, and often how long it takes them to terminate.
Why not us? Why can't we be one infinitesimal reality in the entire sea of possible realities, held together by the fact that our reality happens to have coherent rules that allows it to exist as some possible state in the greater states of some amorphous soup of possibility?
Just a thought. I know it may be more out there for some.
I think it's fine to imagine that there might be a root universe that doesn't share this one's restrictions on information density, but we don't have any reason to believe it and without believing it the argument that there should be near infinite simulated realities starts to break down
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I you're really maybe missing the simulation business w.r.t. computing, etc. It's like cells in a dish debating the world outside them without any context of it.
It's pretty trivial to have this reality be a 'container', as it were, within some superset reality, regardless of the information density of said contained reality.
Think of it like a human body sort of being its own unique, low-entropic thing.
I personally like thinking that in one sense, we're all a bunch of bits of fleeting consciousness on the edge of some fractal of realities, and the 'substrate' is simply possibility itself.
After all, the mandelbrot fractal is drawn by which series terminate, and often how long it takes them to terminate.
Why not us? Why can't we be one infinitesimal reality in the entire sea of possible realities, held together by the fact that our reality happens to have coherent rules that allows it to exist as some possible state in the greater states of some amorphous soup of possibility?
Just a thought. I know it may be more out there for some.
I think it's fine to imagine that there might be a root universe that doesn't share this one's restrictions on information density, but we don't have any reason to believe it and without believing it the argument that there should be near infinite simulated realities starts to break down