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Given that you would also be simulating a lot of unintelligent behaviour, how would you discover whether or not the simulation has been successful? I mean how would you find which parts of your system are the intelligent parts?

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Perhaps you could detect when they start to preform science. Put them one a rock, then a few hundred thousand kilometers away place another rock, this time sterile, and seperate them with a vacuum. If living goop gets to the sterile rock, chances are you would be justified in calling it intelligent.

(Yes, I did just recently watch 2001. Sue me ;p)

When they try to escape confinement...? (See my comment above, and the movie 'The Thirteenth Floor')

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