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by dogcow @, Hiding from Bob, in the vent core., Wednesday, October 25, 2017, 07:54 (2590 days ago) @ Robot Chickens
edited by dogcow, Wednesday, October 25, 2017, 08:06

If your simulation requires any idea be fully simulated then your simulation will not support things like imagination or fiction.


Which would be a pretty shitty and worthless tool for whatever the Vex are trying to accomplish.

But it would be no good to the Vex to imagine a larger computer without being able to simulate what it could do. IMHO, the only way a warmind could be incomprehensible to the Vex would be if a/the warmind(s?) could represent a large enough number of possible states that the vex couldn't simulate them. Here's the key: Just as a 2 bit computer can imagine a 4 bit computer exists, it is impossible for the 2 bit computer to comprehend the calculations that the 4 bit computer could do.

Edit: also, a 4 bit computer can only simulate 2 different 2-bit computers.


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