there is someone out there. Her husband passed the question on to her, and shesaid something Ramsey couldn't hear. But it made a horrid kind of sense, too:once you accepted a simulation this good, it answered many of his other questions. Helooked very skinny, even more than usual, and he did not lift his head up when she came close.
That was quite enough commitment to the world outside their own heads. He shuddered and crossed his arms in front of his chest, hugging himself. Lightning, too--that bright slash in the sky, as though for a moment the universe of matterhad been torn open to reveal the transcendent light of eternity. And only someone who did not understand the limits ofsimple code, the chill purity of numbers, would dare to suggest that it might dream.
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