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Originally Posted by Superman
I love this kind of stuff and would like to take this theory seriously but there's a problem. Consciousness. I could easily imagine programming an entire world full of people and history and ancestors, etc. But I can't accept that the characters in the program are given consciousness. Their lives might be viewable or even experienceable, but they don't get their own consciousness.
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Doesn't this come back to "Cogito, ergo sum", or "I think, therefore I am"?
Does the argument of René Descartes work along these same lines?