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by RaichuKFM @, Northeastern Ohio, Tuesday, October 24, 2017, 17:35 (2590 days ago) @ Cody Miller

Assume the simulation can simulate a certain number of particles, and all the laws of physics accurately. Assume they have perfectly simulated a human. Therefore, the human has all their memories, determined by the state of their mind.

Assume the simulation capabilities are less than a star's worth of particles. The simulation cannot simulate a star, not really.

The human still has their memories of looking at the sun, the starry night sky, astronomy classes. From their memories they can infer a concept of a star.

Even if there are no stars in the simulation, the simulation of a preexisting human mind brings the idea in.

That's what this is.

The Vex can't simulate the Warmind, or at least that's their gamble, and apparently successful. (It's an intelligence stretching over so many installations, however many Warminds there are.) The Warmind can thus act with certainty it is not simulated. It thus has leverage over the Vex mind, instead of the Vex mind's leverage over the researchers.

They just need an incomplete idea of a Warmind, which is all even the non-simulated ones could have.


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