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Furcas comments on Updating towards the simulation hypothesis because you think about AI - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Furcas 06 March 2016 02:21:35AM 1 point [-]

I think Jim means that if minds are patterns, there could be instances of our minds in a simulation (or more!) as well as in the base reality, so that we exist in both (until the simulation diverges from reality, if it ever does).