where there are beings experiencing bliss in the same proportions, we must resist the urge to feel (respectively) sorry for them or jealous of them. Your intuitive sense of what “really exists” should remain limited to this universe.
Why is that? Your argument is that if there are a large or infinite number of parallel universes being simulated (or just existing) I have to resist the urge to care about the feelings of the creatures being simulated in those parallel universes. My question is why? You haven’t developed this argument at all, you just claimed that it is that way but why should that be so?
Why is running 1000 parallel simulations of where I am tortured the same as running just 1? Just because our universes are supposedly completely unrelated causality-wise? What a causist argument to make! Yes I damn well care if you put me inside an atom-scanner and duplicate me and put both of me in two cages where we are tortured in an identical fashion within this one universe. So why should I feel different about 1000 of me being tortured in causally unrelated universes? If I accepted your argument, then 1000 non-identical people suffering should be the same to me as just 1 person suffering as well. You say that if those 1000 people share the same universe as I do, I should care, because I am in the same “cause-and-effect bubble” as they are, but if I’m not in the same “cause-and-effect bubble” I shouldn’t care because… why? Because I can’t do anything anyway? This argument doesn’t sound right on any level I can think of.
Also, I don’t get the leap from 1 to 0. What exactly am I being simulated on once the “simulation” by G.O.D. is shut down? As I understand it a simulation requires computation, which is only possible by packets if information interacting. If the simulation is shut down then that should mean the interactions stop and the simulation we supposedly live in should simply freeze in a snapshot or disintegrate altogether. What am I missing here that I didn’t understand?
Why is that? Your argument is that if there are a large or infinite number of parallel universes being simulated (or just existing) I have to resist the urge to care about the feelings of the creatures being simulated in those parallel universes. My question is why? You haven’t developed this argument at all, you just claimed that it is that way but why should that be so?
Why is running 1000 parallel simulations of where I am tortured the same as running just 1? Just because our universes are supposedly completely unrelated causality-wise? What a causist argument to make! Yes I damn well care if you put me inside an atom-scanner and duplicate me and put both of me in two cages where we are tortured in an identical fashion within this one universe. So why should I feel different about 1000 of me being tortured in causally unrelated universes? If I accepted your argument, then 1000 non-identical people suffering should be the same to me as just 1 person suffering as well. You say that if those 1000 people share the same universe as I do, I should care, because I am in the same “cause-and-effect bubble” as they are, but if I’m not in the same “cause-and-effect bubble” I shouldn’t care because… why? Because I can’t do anything anyway? This argument doesn’t sound right on any level I can think of.
Also, I don’t get the leap from 1 to 0. What exactly am I being simulated on once the “simulation” by G.O.D. is shut down? As I understand it a simulation requires computation, which is only possible by packets if information interacting. If the simulation is shut down then that should mean the interactions stop and the simulation we supposedly live in should simply freeze in a snapshot or disintegrate altogether. What am I missing here that I didn’t understand?