Still, mind-independence can serve as a useful sufficient condition for being real, and one that helps to explain at least one useful dimension of our sense of reality. If something exists in a way that’s independent of anyone’s mind, then it has an especially robust sort of reality. If something exists only in a way that depends on our minds, then it’s less robustly part of the external world.
so sims are less robustly part of the external world?
