Our universe is most likely a computer simulation

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37. My favorite example of the reality effect...

A blind person is getting a smaller, simpler array of input than a sighted person, but the blind do not seem to question their reality.

We could be missing five senses people in the "real" world have, including senses to detect forces that don't even exist in our universe, and we wouldn't know, or care.

If you think you are real you think you are real. And who knows how much a mind can be reduced while retaining that conviction?

Evolution suggests that we are near the simplicity-bottom of possible consciousnesses since we are the first ones here.

(Not because evolution tends makes things more advanced, which it doesn't, but because the fact that we seem to be first-generation consciousness suggests that we took some relatively small steps to get here from a smart-but-not-conscious predecessor, and would be about as close to that predecessor as one could be while making the cognitive jump.)