Thomas Campbell
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That barbarian doesn't have a heart beating blood around inside his body, doesn't have a brain in his head. You don't render anything except what you can see, what other players can see. So right now, neither one of us have a brain being rendered unless somebody cracks open our skull and then the brain is rendered. So that's the way that works.
And now people say, yeah, but what about I hit you over the head with a bar? Now it's affected your consciousness. Now you can't remember who you are. You drag your left foot. You mumble. You don't speak clearly. All you've done is change how the rule set can function. The consciousness can only do what the rule set of the virtual reality allows it to do.
And now people say, yeah, but what about I hit you over the head with a bar? Now it's affected your consciousness. Now you can't remember who you are. You drag your left foot. You mumble. You don't speak clearly. All you've done is change how the rule set can function. The consciousness can only do what the rule set of the virtual reality allows it to do.
And now people say, yeah, but what about I hit you over the head with a bar? Now it's affected your consciousness. Now you can't remember who you are. You drag your left foot. You mumble. You don't speak clearly. All you've done is change how the rule set can function. The consciousness can only do what the rule set of the virtual reality allows it to do.
So you hit me over the head, and now because my brain's been crushed in this area and that area, I've got these symptoms. It doesn't hurt the consciousness any. The consciousness now has to play an avatar that slurs its words, drags its left foot, and can't remember who it is. It has to play that avatar. So it doesn't change consciousness. It changes what the player can do.
So you hit me over the head, and now because my brain's been crushed in this area and that area, I've got these symptoms. It doesn't hurt the consciousness any. The consciousness now has to play an avatar that slurs its words, drags its left foot, and can't remember who it is. It has to play that avatar. So it doesn't change consciousness. It changes what the player can do.
So you hit me over the head, and now because my brain's been crushed in this area and that area, I've got these symptoms. It doesn't hurt the consciousness any. The consciousness now has to play an avatar that slurs its words, drags its left foot, and can't remember who it is. It has to play that avatar. So it doesn't change consciousness. It changes what the player can do.
And it's the same with your barbarian. If your barbarian is a level three, there's only certain things you can do. If it's a level 20, there's a lot more it can do. So you can only play it according to what the rule says is possible. Well, our rule set is physics, chemistry, biology. It's all the basic science. So that's how that works. But there's much more going on behind the scenes.
And it's the same with your barbarian. If your barbarian is a level three, there's only certain things you can do. If it's a level 20, there's a lot more it can do. So you can only play it according to what the rule says is possible. Well, our rule set is physics, chemistry, biology. It's all the basic science. So that's how that works. But there's much more going on behind the scenes.
And it's the same with your barbarian. If your barbarian is a level three, there's only certain things you can do. If it's a level 20, there's a lot more it can do. So you can only play it according to what the rule says is possible. Well, our rule set is physics, chemistry, biology. It's all the basic science. So that's how that works. But there's much more going on behind the scenes.
There's the computer that's computing all of it. Now, in order for this computer to know what to render next, it has to have this database of everything that could possibly happen next and the probability of that thing happening. And it doesn't want to have to figure this all out on the fly because something happened down here and now it has to figure out all those possibilities and things.
There's the computer that's computing all of it. Now, in order for this computer to know what to render next, it has to have this database of everything that could possibly happen next and the probability of that thing happening. And it doesn't want to have to figure this all out on the fly because something happened down here and now it has to figure out all those possibilities and things.
There's the computer that's computing all of it. Now, in order for this computer to know what to render next, it has to have this database of everything that could possibly happen next and the probability of that thing happening. And it doesn't want to have to figure this all out on the fly because something happened down here and now it has to figure out all those possibilities and things.
So it creates a database. of all the possibilities. And when I say all, not really all, there's a limit past which it doesn't matter. When the probability is 10 to the minus 20 or something and it throws it out, it doesn't have to do that. It only takes a subset of all the possibilities, but it's a big set.
So it creates a database. of all the possibilities. And when I say all, not really all, there's a limit past which it doesn't matter. When the probability is 10 to the minus 20 or something and it throws it out, it doesn't have to do that. It only takes a subset of all the possibilities, but it's a big set.
So it creates a database. of all the possibilities. And when I say all, not really all, there's a limit past which it doesn't matter. When the probability is 10 to the minus 20 or something and it throws it out, it doesn't have to do that. It only takes a subset of all the possibilities, but it's a big set.
So it takes all those and says, all right, here's the possibilities and here's the probabilities. Now, something happens. Somebody makes a measurement, digs a hole in their yard, looks up at a telescope, and it wants to know what to put in there. It takes a random draw from the probability distribution of the possibilities, and that's what goes in that hole. That's what they say.
So it takes all those and says, all right, here's the possibilities and here's the probabilities. Now, something happens. Somebody makes a measurement, digs a hole in their yard, looks up at a telescope, and it wants to know what to put in there. It takes a random draw from the probability distribution of the possibilities, and that's what goes in that hole. That's what they say.
So it takes all those and says, all right, here's the possibilities and here's the probabilities. Now, something happens. Somebody makes a measurement, digs a hole in their yard, looks up at a telescope, and it wants to know what to put in there. It takes a random draw from the probability distribution of the possibilities, and that's what goes in that hole. That's what they say.
So, now this opens up all kinds of interesting things about everything. For instance, you're interested in ETs, extraterrestrials. That's one interest of yours now. This tells you a whole new take on that. Now, again, I'm not talking about this is the way it has to be. I guess I should have said this. I'm talking about here's a model of reality. It's a model. Now, how do you judge a model?