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Only if we agree "I think therefore I am".

It's quite possible that we're merely optimized media-blob search engines and our "consciousness" is merely the query reponse media-blob to the input blob of "what am *I* thinking?" and "what am *I*".

I don't know the answer to that and I won't rule out the possibility that we're not just very sophisticated zimbos.

My reasoning is this: the mediocrity principle states that here and now things are not special. Therefore (if the mediocrity principle is true then) if there exist simulations here and now that I (or others) prefer in which the NPCs are preferrably close to human simulations then there exists some category of simulation designers who would simulate highly detailed NPCs who mimic to some extent consciousness.

I myself prefer my catgirls to be witty.

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i believe the main simulation argument bias is its antropocentric view, but it doesn't need to be like that.

what if the simulation take place on a "computer" in a totally different universe where the continuum exists and is accessible?

in such a universe it will be possible to simulate infinite finite multiverses like ours, with finite energy, limited maximum speed and quantized space and time.

then the whole argument about saving time and resources to pick what to simulate won't be very important.

it would be more important to create agents able to recognize and focus on interesting patterns emerging from the simulation universes.

I guess a sensor tuned on neg-entropia density would do a nice job.

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