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Comment author: [deleted] 02 December 2014 04:55:07AM 2 points [-]

However, if we are willing to call one simulation real, then we get into the slippery slope problem which I have no idea how to avoid whereby any physical phenomena implementing any program from the perspective of any universal Turing machine must really exist.

Can you expand on this a bit?

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