Posted: Nov 06, 2018 10:50 am
GrahamH wrote:True, but that may only be a problem of resources and/or patience. We have no idea about what resources might be available. A simulation doesn't need realtime, it will use simulation time (it will simulate the passage of time).
We might agree that any level of simulated detail requires more resource than a real world at that detail. You need more than 100 atoms to simulate 100 atoms. You can simulate simplified aggregates with fewer resources. But we don't know anything about relative level of detail. It seems our universe has limits to the detail, quantised energy levels, Planck scale etc.
Oh, shut up. I'm not interested in your speculations. That isn't even philosophy. I said the whole point was to specify what is denoted by 'simulation'? Have you done that? No. All you've done is transfer the problem to 'resources'. Is that philosophy? Not on your tintype.