(January 17, 2017 at 6:35 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:(January 17, 2017 at 6:30 pm)Mathilda Wrote: World of Warcraft runs on servers using the same laws of physics as the people who wrote the code.
Yet the rules that apply to warcrafts "world", don't apply to the people that created it, correct?
Your whole argument relies on equivocation of what is meant by rules, reality, worlds etc.
I hate to break it to you but World of Warcraft is not real. It's a game. Specifically, it's a computer program. It exists as a collection of hardware and software working deterministically using very simple operations on a vast number of electrical and magnetic states. There is nothing in principle different between WoW than Excel yet you don't call Excel a reality.
World of Warcraft exists within the laws of nature. What you are referring to as rules and a 'world' is nothing more than a series of calculations relying on matter and energy.