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Also, it could be that the 'real' civilization is not simulating the entire universe, but rather just the solar system and simulating the light entering the solar system from outside the solar system, substantially reducing the computational complexity of the simulation.

Still, modeling every living being as a sort of cellular automaton and running the simulation would take a lot of quantum computers. What would be the computational complexity of modelling the consciousness of a human being?




>What would be the computational complexity of modelling the consciousness of a human being? //

You only need to model one though.




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