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 * file: karbytes_05_november_2023.txt
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 * date: 05_NOVEMBER_2023
 * author: karbytes
 * license: PUBLIC_DOMAIN 
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P: "Wah! You thought unflattering things about me! Shame on you! I'm gonna hurt you for what you did: made me feel bad with your thoughts."

Q: "What am I supposed to do; false flattery?"

P: "No! Don't lie to me! Just don't think badly of me. Think good of me. That's all I ask."

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P1: "For every ambition, there is a counter-ambition."

P1: "Yes I do mean to imply that there is always someone else there (i.e. someone other than yourself)."

Q1: "By someone else, do you mean some person (other than myself) and not just some inanimate force of nature?"

P1: "Person. Not force of nature. Some information processing agent with goals and intelligence and preferences and awareness that you exist in its reality."

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karbytes_0: "If there is insufficient demand for X to continue existing, then X ceases to exist. Existence requires a continuous input of energy (especially in the form of cognitive resources invested by some information processing agent, Y, towards keeping X instantiated (as a (virtual(?)) object) in Y's memory)."

karbytes_1: "I mean to imply that all physical objects are just as virtual as all virtual objects are. To be precise, all empirical data which manifests as qualia in some information processing agent's subject experience is comprised of the same essential (i.e. irreducible) substance. Hence, a virtual reality software simulation being run on some physical hardware computer is not necessarily dependent on the laws of physics which govern the physical hardware computer's encompassing universe. Instead, the virtual and the physical could (at least hypothetically) exist as parallel casually independent universes. To extrapolate further, it is hypothetically possible for any law of physics to be violated at any time because all phenomena are at least hypothetically conjured up by the same ubiquitous irreducible substrate."

karbytes_2: "What I mean to imply is that the ubiquitous irreducible substrate which conjures up and all phenomena (including observers and noumena (if any exist)) can do whatever it wants because it (while in its purest form) is unbounded by any constricting laws of physics."