It was Nick Bostrom who coined the "simulation hypothesis" but the concept of a simulated universe touches upon many related ideas: from Descartes' "evil genius" to Edgar Allan Poe's "Dream within a dream". Use this tag when manifest reality is contingent on the machination of a more "real" domain.
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What does it mean for the universe to be a simulation?
Amongst philosophers in general... what exactly is meant by the universe or reality itself being a simulation?
Simulation is fairly clear to me, when works "within" the assumptions of the framework of our physical world... ie: simulations like video…
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Is there a popular philosophical argument that purports to show or corroborate the claim that the reality is a computer simulation?
Is there a popular philosophical argument that purports to show or corroborate the claim that the reality is a computer simulation? I am wondering if any philosopher tried to tackle this question with some strong philosophical arguments, because…
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Can the simulation theory be a scientifically-sound proof that God exists?
The way I understand it, it says that the probability of God not existing is like 1 / infinity.
I wonder if there are any flaws in the logic below that I don't see.
A possible interpretation can go like this:
Let's assume that there's indeed nothing…
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Why are we not trying to create an Experience Machine?
Is there any intrinsic difference between our world and a simulated one (i.e. The Experience Machine)? I cannot think of any, so why do we not all want that? Is it just the status quo bias, or is there some other desire than pleasure that is keeping…
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Why does Elon Musk say we almost certainly live in a simulated reality?
When Morpheus from the Matrix tells us about why the machines use human body heat together with some sort of fusion in order to derive energy, why didn't the machines simply use nuclear, fusion, electromagnetic, geothermal or any given other energy…
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Simulation argument: is "leaf reality" is most probable?
Suppose the simulation hypothesis is correct, so that we are living in one node in a tree of simulated universes. At the root of the tree is base reality, then the child nodes of the root are universes being simulated by base reality, the child…
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