Simulation of what?
However, assuming us to be simutated by our future selfs leads to a strange loop.
More here...
The author made me believe, the our world may be (lisp-)coded, and if so it doesn't harm.
Douglas Hofstadter is simply confused, and the 777 pages are only developing fallacies and absurdities caused by the ignoring of the
First Soheil's Principle, such as the duplication of the "self" as a brain is accidentally broken into two parts then rebuilt into two perfect complete copies, leading to the ultimate possibility of unlimited duplication of the self.
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Definition:
First Soheil's Principle or Principle of continuity, and the uniqueness of the self
A candle once ignited produces a flame. Should one extinguish this flame, and store the candle for a year, then the flame no longer exist.
If the same candle is reignited after this period, then we have... a SECOND flame, it's not the first one!
The brain is totally similar to a candle, as the self is concerned. It should always follow the Principle of continuity. If the brain processes were to cease for one reason or another at some point, then at restart it would produce a second self but never the first one.
This is why one will neither wake up in the brain and body of a perfect sub-atomic-level copy nor even numerical copy!
And this is how we can definitely rebuke the possibility of multiplication of one's self, which remains unique.
Note that another consequence of the
First Soheil's Principle, is the bebunking of so called
Cryonics, a fallacious industry that claims to perform resuscitation and restoration to full health in the far future of people who cannot be sustained by contemporary medicine and thus preserved to low-temperature (usually at -196°C).
Again, here the patient to be resuscitated would be another self.
In a nutshell, you only die once.
I want to figure out how to change the rules of the game from the inside.
Here is an easy experiment that could give us an unequivocal answer to this basic question.
Let's imagine that the crops [of people] decide to simultaneously start a unlimited strike, for no less than 12 months or even longer.
Then we'll have two cases:
1. This is only a simulation. Nothing really changes, as the Architect can use cheat codes as it pleases. The laws of physics don't apply in the Matrix.
2. This is the only and real world. As the laws of physics rule, the simulation should start to crumble, eventually becoming entirely dysfunctional.
QED
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