derefr comments on Were atoms real? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: derefr 15 December 2010 12:32:42PM *  1 point [-]

Whatever substrate supports the computation inscribing your consciousness would be necessarily real, under whatever sense the word "real" could possibly have useful meaning. ("I think; thinking is an algorithm; therefore something is, in order to execute that algorithm.")

Interestingly, proposing a Tegmark multiverse makes the deepest substrate of consciousness "mathematics."