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    It is not the case that The simulation argument presupposes that non-deterministic computation is reducible to deterministic processes without epistemic loss.

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    • 1.Genuine non-determinism produces epistemic novelty—outcomes not derivable from prior states—which deterministic reduction necessarily eliminates.
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    • 2.Bell's theorem rules out local hidden variables, suggesting quantum indeterminism is ontologically real, not reducible to deterministic processes.
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    • 3.If simulation requires deterministic reduction of non-determinism, this assumption itself needs justification and isn't presupposed by the argument.
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    • 1.All observable physical phenomena are deterministically predictable from prior states, suggesting non-determinism is merely epistemic ignorance.
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    • 2.If simulators use deterministic computation, simulated beings' subjective experience of randomness requires no ontological indeterminism.
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    • 3.Quantum indeterminism may be reducible to hidden deterministic variables, as suggested by pilot-wave theory and similar interpretations.
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