Can someone explain in very basic terms the difference between these two?
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The Holographic Principle considers the idea that we can store three-dimensional information in a two-dimensional space, like a hologram. Because we can do this with data, the idea states, we need to consider the possibility that our reality may be structured the same way. What we perceive as three-dimensional space might actually emerge from a two-dimensional structure: for example, perturbations in the surface of an ultra-massive black hole. The visible universe *can* be argued to have an event horizon, so the theory speculates that our 3D space could be projected inside of it by fluctuations on the surface.
Simulationism is essentially pseudoscientific window-dressing for the question “Wouldn’t it be cool if we lived in The Matrix”?
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