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    Quote Originally Posted by noob View Post
    What I say is that the way information works is a basic assumption and changing how information works would change the very basis of logic and of mathematics and would make a setting that is completely alien.
    You can make a setting where the real life theories about information are false but it makes a setting so vastly different from real life you might even be unable to simulate it which makes immersion much harder.
    How do you simulate information that literally can not exist by using real information due to being in real life?
    It can be impossible.
    None of those assertions about language are immutable physical laws, nor do they underpin anything fundamental about the real world.

    They're just largely untestable assertions about the workings of the mind, nothing more.

    Calling a setting "completely alien" because of some minute detail within one of those "theories" of language is hardly a fair criticism.
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