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I wasn't previously acquainted with the term "modal realism" (been avoiding contemporary philosophy for a while now), but there doesn't seem to be an immediate connection in this case. There aren't actually many worlds being simulated here, as each computer simulates the same world and they all get the same results. Leibniz does introduce the idea of many possible worlds (ยง53), but as a set of designs for this whole thing (computers plus the stuff running inside them) from which God draws one particular design to be the actual world.

He might be closer to modal realists in other regards, though. I don't know.



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