excreationist
Married mouth-breather
I'd say that simulations that involve some kind of computational machinery involve a physical existence even if it is a virtual physical existence like in Minecraft. And here is a simulation running on a redstone computer in Minecraft that also involves a virtual physical world....Idealism is the metaphysical view that associates reality to ideas in the mind rather than to material objects. It lays emphasis on the mental or spiritual components of experience, and renounces the notion of material existence.
3D Minecraft in Minecraft with no command blocks, no datapacks and no mods. Features include an 8x8x8 fully 3D-rendered world with 16 different block types, 32 different items, and dozens of game mechanics including mining, crafting, smelting, building, chests, random ticks and more!
This build does NOT run in real time. It runs on MCHPRS, the server developed by StackDoubleFlow, which speeds up the game roughly 10-20,000x while running redstone. That brings the framerate to a much more reasonable 0.1fps, so the long timelapses in the video only took 9 hours to record in total.
In principle it is pretty clear how the creator would be interacting with a simulation - it is interacting with the virtual physical world that exists in the computer....
It seems the process with an idealism-based creator is a lot more mysterious....
It seems in a simulation there are two levels of physical existence - the physical machinery of the computer (even if it is virtual like in the Minecraft in Minecraft example) and the physical environment that is being simulated.....
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