“We live in a simulation” and “we live in not-a-simulation” are not mutually exclusive.
because of what?
Something like we don’t exist at all, because we are Bolzmann brains?
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).
“We live in a simulation” and “we live in not-a-simulation” are not mutually exclusive.
because of what?
Something like we don’t exist at all, because we are Bolzmann brains?
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).