I fully agree with the "floating points" line. It helps explain "what is a simulation", which I think is a relevant word for the topic of consciousness, since the entire discussion seems to be about whether it's simulate-able or not, yet I rarely hear complete definitions of what makes a simulation -- and I'm starting to think the core might be that simulations are made of approximations and rely on error corrections & bound values to appear plausible, yet they NEVER implement the symmetries. Which brings me to the question, can you think of any simulations that don't make use of approximations?
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I fully agree with the "floating points" line. It helps explain "what is a simulation", which I think is a relevant word for the topic of consciousness, since the entire discussion seems to be about whether it's simulate-able or not, yet I rarely hear complete definitions of what makes a simulation -- and I'm starting to think the core might be that simulations are made of approximations and rely on error corrections & bound values to appear plausible, yet they NEVER implement the symmetries. Which brings me to the question, can you think of any simulations that don't make use of approximations?