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Are you Living in a Computer Simulation?

by deadmansshoes on 12/14/10, 8:20 PM with 4 comments

• by infinity on 12/14/10, 8:46 PM

  This is a famous article of Nick Bostrom from 2002 (published in Philosophical Quaterly). I saw this first in a seminar on anti-realistic theories of truth.

  If we are indeed living inside a simulation, what knowledge can we have about an external world?

  You might also enjoy a discussion of the "brains in a vat" hypothesis: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/brain-vat/

• by bediger on 12/14/10, 8:31 PM

  The following might be rubbish, but it also might be very relevant: http://prespacetime.com/index.php/pst/article/view/18

  If you believe (I do), this one might give some pointers to you: http://www.transhumanist.com/volume7/simulation.html

• by rcfox on 12/14/10, 8:29 PM

  http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2055#c...

• by dnautics on 12/14/10, 8:47 PM

  Somehow I feel like this explains the decline effect.