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Ron Obvious

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10. I'm more open to the "it's all just a computer simulation" hypothesis the more I read about Quantum

Reply to mopinko (Reply #2)

Fri Feb 12, 2021, 05:34 PM

Feb 2021

After all, I think we can imagine computers powerful enough to create that now or in the near future. And if that's possible, there could be essentially an infinite number of such simulations, while there would be only one real universe.

But who knows? Certainly not me. Fascinating stuff, though

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