Link to originalVirtualism is the idea that consciousness is not a physical object. It’s not a mechanism. It exists as if, and by existing as if, it becomes real because it has causal power over the world, and thereby instantiates himself.
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Link to originalSomething is real to the degree that it is implemented.
A weather-simulation is not real in a sense as it is implemented at a certain level of causal structure, which at a certain degree of resolution / from a certain perspective gives you isomorphy, some kind of projection that allows you to predict the weather to a certain point up to a certain resolution, but beyond that it falls apart, because the underlying causal sttructure is different.