--- title: "Full Quantum · a universe that takes a total that leaves the number line · Simulation Hypothesis" url: https://simulation-hypothesis.com/builds/full-quantum description: "The observable universe as one wavefunction. The upper limit. The observable universe as a single wavefunction, with every mind a quantum process." license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ credit: "Ross Allan Dahl, Simulation Hypothesis (simulation-hypothesis.com)" --- [Scenarios](https://simulation-hypothesis.com/builds)7/9 # Full Quantum · The observable universe as one wavefunction. The upper limit. Open in the sandbox ▸ The observable universe as a single wavefunction, with every mind a quantum process. Perfect detail, and more than any possible computer could run. Required computing power rough 1010^79.7 FLOPS Never, within a single universe. [The countdown ▸](https://simulation-hypothesis.com/countdown) Even the exponent needs an exponent. No physical computer comes anywhere near this scale. Computer sizerough one universe-computer Every kilogram of ordinary matter in the observable universe computing at Lloyd’s bound. That’s the ceiling for ordinary matter. Counting dark matter would raise it about sixfold, but we couldn’t actually use any of it. Nothing bigger is physically possible. Feasibility Too large to write as a number The exponent itself needs an exponent. Universe-computerstextbook 1010^79.7 One universe-computer is every kilogram in the observable universe computing at Lloyd’s bound. Power draw, Landauer floortextbook not a number The thermodynamic minimum for flipping bits at room temperature. The best real hardware uses about five billion times more energy than that. The power needed can’t be written as a physical quantity. On every computer on Earthrough unbounded How long it takes, on a clock, to compute one second of simulation on all of humanity’s computers, \~10^21 FLOPS. No amount of time is enough. World actually computedwild guess 100% 1.3 × 10^-8% of the mass is watched by 2.0 × 10^36 observers. The observation dial sets how much of the remainder is computed at the full floor. ## Questions this scenario asks * Does perfect detail even make sense as a goal? * Would quantum consciousness change what experience means? * Does computing suffering in perfect detail make the moral debt bigger? * What can something impossible tell us about the things that are possible? “Worked out a simulation whose total has an exponent on its exponent: 10^(10^79.7) FLOPS.” ## Report card Instance report BEYOND ANY COMPUTER Settings Scale Observable universe Matter floor Quantum, fully entangled Lobby Multiplayer Inner lives 9.0 × 10^79 · quantum Computed 100% Time Linear, live from 1.4 × 10^10 yrs ago Computing needed 1010^79.7 FLOPS Computer size one universe-computer Universe-computers 1010^79.7 Feasibility Too large to write as a number Judged, not measured The author’s reading. None of these changes the computing total. Suffering As found Free will Genuinely free Utilitarian divided Deontological leans for Virtue ethics leans for Existentialist leans for “Worked out a simulation whose total has an exponent on its exponent: 10^(10^79.7) FLOPS.” Two of these are rough and three are wild guesses, and each is tagged that way. Change any one dial and you get a different universe. Matter computingrough 1010^79.7 FLOPS Every particle is held in one shared quantum state. That state grows exponentially with the number of particles. Mind computingwild guess rides along free At the quantum, fully entangled floor, brains are already computed as matter. On their own they’d take 1.4 × 10^80. At this matter floor the brains are already computed as matter, so minds add nothing to the total. Inner liveswild guess 9.0 × 10^79 9.0 × 10^79 real minds. 8.8 × 10^37 organisms left as scenery. Operations so farrough 1010^79.7 13.8 billion years on the clock, at 1010^79.7 per second. History that is only storedrough 0% Computing begins 13.8 billion years ago. No humans are present at the start. [◂ Universe Lite](https://simulation-hypothesis.com/builds/lite)Open in the sandbox ▸ [Baseline ▸](https://simulation-hypothesis.com/builds/custom)