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Letter: On the many weird theories of reality (2)

Published 17 April 2024

From Wolf Kirchmeir, Blind River, Ontario, Canada

If we accept that our experience of reality is a simulation created by our brains, then the “self” must be part of the simulation. To ask whether we live “in” a simulation is a category error. We live as a simulation, not in one.

Issue no. 3487 published 20 April 2024

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