There Is Some Hope That We Aren’t Living Inside a Computer Simulation

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Illustration of the brain-in-a-vat concept

Via io9, ‘Philosopher Nick Bostroms famous Simulation Argument suggests its highly probable that we live inside a supercomputer. But one philosopher takes this hypothesis to task, arguing in a new paper that there are other post-human scenarios that need to be taken into account.’

 

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  1. I’ve been thinking about this discussion for a while and I think there is an assumption that should be looked at. Why do all these discussions assume that it would be descendants of humanity that are running the simulation? It could easily be entities as far beyond and as unrelated to humans as we are to the simulated entities in the computer program “Creatures”, meaning that we are only simulations embedded in an artificial universe that has no relation to “real” reality.

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