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The Brouhaha Over Consciousness and “Pseudoscience” — John Horgan (The Science Writer) (johnhorgan.org)
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[–] knokelmaat@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I totally agree. What we perceive around us is the reality we are trying to understand. A simulation is by definition a copy or simplified version of something occuring in reality. Describing our reality as a simulation is just meaningless, as it just somehow moves the definition of reality as "something above or beyond what we can experience". That is not useful and makes me think of flying spaghetti monster stuff.