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IAmNotACellist | 10 months ago
Let's say a sparrow falls and a simulated being observes it, but so does a camera, which stores the footage in an unexamined hard drive. Years later another being observes the footage stored by that camera, and up until that point there had been no point in manifesting it in the simulation. Would the wings of the falling sparrow flutter exactly the same way for the two observers? What if they met and discussed it, as part of a deliberate experiment to test the consistency of the universe? Would they agree? Imagine the computational overhead necessary in storing details that you're not sure will ever be useful. The same logic could hold true for a photon generated by an exploding star 12 billion years ago that zipped across the expanding universe and eventually interacted with some silicon in a CCD in an astronomer's camera.
strictnein|10 months ago
IAmNotACellist|10 months ago
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