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Dainton modifies Bostrom's trilemma by substituting "neural ancestor simulations" (ranging from literal brains in a vat, to far-future humans with induced high-fidelity hallucinations that they are their own distant ancestors) for Bostrom's "ancestor simulations", on the grounds that every philosophical school of thought can agree that sufficiently high-tech neural ancestor simulation experiences would be indistinguishable from non-simulated experiences. Even if high-fidelity computer Sims are never conscious, Dainton's reasoning leads to the following conclusion: either the fraction of human-level civilizations that reach a posthuman stage and are able and willing to run large numbers of neural ancestor simulations is close to zero, or some kind of (possibly neural) ancestor simulation exists.

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super-powerful computers is run detailed simulations of their forebears or of people like their forebears. Because their computers would be so powerful, they could run a great many such simulations. Suppose that these simulated people are conscious (as they would be if the simulations were sufficiently fine-grained and if a certain quite widely accepted position in the philosophy of mind is correct). Then it could be the case that the vast majority of minds like ours do not belong to the original race but rather to people simulated by the advanced descendants of an original race.

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know that you are not currently dreaming? Morpheus raises a similar question: 'Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real. What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?' ... I think this case is analogous to the Evil Genius Hypothesis: it's just that the role of the "evil genius" is played by a part of my own cognitive system! If my dream-generating system simulates all of space-time, we have something like the original Matrix Hypothesis.

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about computing as arising from faulty components, it seems as if the abstraction that uses perfectly operating computers is unlikely to exist as anything but a platonic ideal. Another critique of such a point of view is that there is no evidence for the kind of digitization that characterizes computers nor are there any predictions made by those who advocate such a view that have been experimentally confirmed.

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constrained. They are local; they don't change in time; they don't change in place. In a programmed environment, there's no reason to obey any of those constraints... And then there's the embarrassing question of, okay if this is a simulated world, what is the thing in which it is simulated made out of? What are the laws for that? So it begs the question.

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Evil Genius Hypothesis: I have a disembodied mind and an evil genius is feeding me sensory inputs to give the appearance of an external world. This is René Descartes's classical skeptical hypothesis... Dream Hypothesis: I am now and have always been dreaming. Descartes raised the question: how do you

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objects to the notion that posthumans would have a reason to run simulated universes: "...being so advanced they would have collected enough knowledge about their past to have little interest in this kind of simulation. ...They may have virtual-reality museums, where they could go and experience the

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explores the idea of the world being a simulation, with an infinite or near-infinite number of "world layers" of simulations running inside other simulations. The main problem with this system is that in some of these "world layers", both above and below the one the characters find themselves living

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saying: "You are living in a simulation. Click here for more information". However, imperfections in a simulated environment might be difficult for the native inhabitants to identify and for purposes of authenticity, even the simulated memory of a blatant revelation might be purged programmatically.

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A comparable civilization reaching aforementioned technological status will likely not produce a significant number of simulated realities (one that might push the probable existence of digital entities beyond the probable number of "real" entities in a Universe) for any of a number of reasons, such

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In many respects this point of view may be nothing more than a result of the fact that the notion of computation is the disease of our age—everywhere we look today we see examples of computers, computation, and information theory and thus we extrapolate this to our laws of physics. Indeed, thinking

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argues that a self-interested occupant of a high-fidelity simulation should strive to be entertaining and praiseworthy in order to avoid being turned off or being shunted into a non-conscious low-fidelity part of the simulation. Hanson additionally speculates that someone who is aware that he might

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Some point out that there is currently no proof of technology that would facilitate the existence of sufficiently high-fidelity ancestor simulation. Additionally, there is no proof that it is physically possible or feasible for a posthuman civilization to create such a simulation, and therefore for

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has argued that the future humans of our universe cannot be the ones performing the simulation, since the simulation argument considers our universe to be the one being simulated. In other words, it has been argued that the probability that humans live in a simulated universe is not independent of

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tells the unfinished story of a simulation scenario in which multiple persons find themselves in a circumstance of multiplicities and simultaneities. The storyline involves an amnesia, seemingly to protect the integrity of the simulation, as suggested would be necessary by the philosopher Preston

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it follows that humans probably live in a simulation. Some philosophers disagree, proposing that perhaps "Sims" do not have conscious experiences the same way that unsimulated humans do, or that it can otherwise be self-evident to a human that they are a human rather than a Sim. Philosopher Barry

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Many works of science fiction as well as some forecasts by serious technologists and futurologists predict that enormous amounts of computing power will be available in the future. Let us suppose for a moment that these predictions are correct. One thing that later generations might do with their

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and his companions. A secret Vatican document describes the truth about the simulated reality by inviting its reader to choose any series of numbers at random. The document lists the same numbers on the next page since the simulated program cannot produce a truly random event. The simulation is

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is set in a simulated reality known as the Neo World Program, which in this instance simulates a class trip to Jabberwock Island which, while initially peaceful, turns into a "killing game" involving the students in the simulation killing each other and trying to not be found guilty. Similarly,

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raises an empirical objection, saying that the laws of the universe have hidden complexity which is "not used for anything" and the laws are constrained by time and location – all of this being unnecessary and extraneous in a simulation. He further argues that the simulation argument amounts to

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The laws that we observe just don't look like a competently programmed simulation... They have a lot of hidden complexity. So when you dig deeper you find that there's a hidden structure that's not used for anything. Why would you do that, if you're simulating a world? Also, the laws are very

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Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn't know he was Zhuangzi. Suddenly he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakable Zhuangzi. But he didn't know if he was Zhuangzi who had dreamt he was a

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Rizwan Virk, of Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a founder of PlayLabs, and author of the novel, "The Simulation Hypothesis". A story about Virk trying on a virtual reality headset and forgetting he was in an empty room makes him wonder if the real world was created by more tech-savvy

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The trilemma points out that a technologically mature "posthuman" civilization would have enormous computing power; if even a tiny percentage of them were to run "ancestor simulations" (that is, "high-fidelity" simulations of ancestral life that would be indistinguishable from reality to the

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argues that the simulation hypothesis leads to a contradiction: if humans are typical, as it is assumed, and not capable of performing simulations, this contradicts the arguer's assumption that it is easy for us to foresee that other civilizations can most likely perform simulations.

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universe? Sounds like a colossal waste of time". Gleiser also points out that there is no plausible reason to stop at one level of simulation, so that the simulated ancestors might also be simulating their ancestors, and so on, creating an infinite regress akin to the

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magazine, March 2013, pages 43–45. Interview with physicist Silas Beane of the University of Bonn discussing a proposed test for simulated reality evidence. Three pages, three photos, including one of Beane and a computer-generated scene from the film

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that, if observed, would be consistent with the simulation hypothesis according to these physicists. In 2017, Campbell et al. proposed several experiments aimed at testing the simulation hypothesis in their paper "On Testing the Simulation Theory".

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are comparable or equivalent to those of a naturally occurring human consciousness, and that one or more levels of simulation within simulations would be feasible given only a modest expenditure of computational resources in the real world.

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that he called "the simulation argument". Despite its name, the "simulation argument" does not directly argue that humans live in a simulation; instead, it argues that one of three unlikely-seeming propositions is almost certainly true:

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of their environment, when in fact these mental lives are simulated separately (and are thus, in fact, not governed by the simulated physics). Chalmers claims that they might eventually find that their thoughts fail to be physically

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First, if one assumes that humans will not be destroyed nor destroy themselves before developing such a technology, and that human descendants will have no overriding legal restrictions or moral compunctions against simulating

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or their own historical biosphere, then, Bostrom argues it would be unreasonable to count ourselves among the small minority of genuine organisms who, sooner or later, will be vastly outnumbered by artificial simulations.

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has explored the simulation hypothesis and has argued for a kind of mathematical Platonism according to which every object (including, for example, a stone) can be regarded as implementing every possible computation.

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In physics, the view of the universe and its workings as the ebb and flow of information was first observed by Wheeler. Consequently, two views of the world emerged: the first one proposes that the universe is a

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claim about the world is true", the third of the three disjunctive propositions being that humans are almost certainly living in a simulation. Thus, Bostrom, and writers in agreement with Bostrom such as

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interview that the hypothesis was correct, giving "better than 50–50 odds" and adding, "I wish I could summon a strong argument against it, but I can find none". However, in a subsequent interview with

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Some scholars accept the trilemma, and argue that the first or second of the propositions are true, and that the third proposition (the proposition that humans live in a simulation) is false. Physicist

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Therefore, if we don't think that we are currently living in a computer simulation, we are not entitled to believe that we will have descendants who will run lots of such simulations of their forebears.

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could be considered a type of simulation capable of fooling someone who is asleep. As a result, Bertrand Russell has argued that the "dream hypothesis" is not a logical impossibility, but that

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In 2019, philosopher Preston Greene suggested that it may be best not to find out if we are living in a simulation, since, if it were found to be true, such knowing might end the simulation.

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It is then possible to argue that, if this were the case, we would be rational to think that we are likely among the simulated minds rather than among the original biological ones.

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is not necessarily as problematic of a philosophical view as is commonly supposed, though he does not endorse it. Similar arguments have been made for philosophical views about

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has not been solved, dooming the world to end on January 19, 2038 at 3:14:07 am UTC. The characters have to hack all the way into the highest world layer, the real world that

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Bostrom attempted to assess the probability of our reality being a simulation. His argument states that at least one of the following statements is very likely to be true:

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Besides attempting to assess whether the simulation hypothesis is true or false, philosophers have also used it to illustrate other philosophical problems, especially in

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Some critics propose that the simulation could be in the first generation, and all the simulated people that will one day be created do not yet exist, in accordance with

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It is nothing more than a moral prejudice that truth is worth more than semblance; it is, in fact, the worst proved supposition in the world.... Why might not the world

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Lucid dreaming is characterized as an idea where the elements of dreaming and waking are combined to a point where the user knows they are dreaming, or waking perhaps.

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As a corollary to the trilemma, Bostrom states that "Unless we are now living in a simulation, our descendants will almost certainly never run an ancestor-simulation".

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Bostrom's argument rests on the premise that given sufficiently advanced technology, it is possible to represent the populated surface of the Earth without recourse to

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Humans will have no way of knowing that they live in a simulation because they will never reach the technological capacity to realize the marks of a simulated reality.

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Nonetheless, should any evidence come to light, either for or against the skeptical hypothesis, it would radically alter the aforementioned probability.

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or cognition, it would establish the theoretical possibility of a simulated reality. Nevertheless, the relationship between cognition and phenomenal

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categorically reject—or are uninterested in—anthropic reasoning, dismissing it as "merely philosophical", unfalsifiable, or inherently unscientific.

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scenario). In both cases, the claim is that all this would require is hooking up the mental lives to the simulated physics in a different way.

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as diversion of computational processing power for other tasks, ethical considerations of holding entities captive in simulated realities, etc.

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be in a simulation might care less about others and live more for today: "your motivation to save for retirement, or to help the poor in

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Science fiction has highlighted themes such as virtual reality, artificial intelligence and computer gaming for more than fifty years.

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Alva H. Katsoulis: The Limit of Knowledge, Wittgenstein's certain defeat of skepticism. Uppsala University, 2021. Available online at

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A method to test one type of simulation hypothesis was proposed in 2012 in a joint paper by physicists Silas R. Beane from the

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Humans are living in a reality in which post-humans have not developed yet, and current humans are actually living in reality.

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likened existing things to a scene-painting and supposed them to resemble the impressions experienced in sleep or madness.

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likened existing things to a scene-painting and supposed them to resemble the impressions experienced in sleep or madness.

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continuum into a discrete set of points, which may result in observable effects. In analogy with the mini-simulations that

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Human history is full of thinkers who observed the difference between how things seem and how they might actually be, with

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philosophically formalized these epistemic doubts, to be followed by a large literature with subsequent variations like

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There is a long philosophical and scientific history to the underlying thesis that reality is an illusion. This

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in which sentient beings themselves are constructs. There has been much debate over this topic, ranging from

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rule against it. One of the first philosophers to question the distinction between reality and dreams was

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A version of the simulation hypothesis was theorized as a part of a philosophical argument on the part of

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the third proposition is the one of those three that is true, and almost all people live in simulations,

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capable of producing simulated realities, or such simulations are physically impossible to construct.

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chastised philosophers for seeking to find the true world behind the deceptive world of appearances.

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that say that an individual could have been another human being in the past, as well as views about

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lives and tribulations of their ancestors. But a full-fledged, resource-consuming simulation of an

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Campbell, T., Owhadi, H., Sauvageau, J. and Watkinson, D. (2017) On Testing the Simulation Theory.

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In 2015, Kent Forbes published a documentary named "The Simulation Hypothesis", notably featuring

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butterfly or a butterfly dreaming he was Zhuangzi. Between Zhuangzi and a butterfly there must be

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that a computer cannot provide and that simulated people, while behaving appropriately, would be

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The hypothesis is preceded by many earlier versions, several of which have also been featured in

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been dreaming, in which case the objects he perceives actually exist, albeit in his imagination.

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Chalmers (2003) discusses the dream hypothesis and notes that this comes in two distinct forms:

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lives in, to synchronize all the world layers and solve the Year 2038 problem in all of them.

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The dream hypothesis is also used to develop other philosophical concepts, such as Valberg's

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simulated ancestor), the total number of simulated ancestors, or "Sims", in the universe (or

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Any entities with our general set of experiences are almost certainly living in a simulation.

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distinction! This is called the Transformation of Things. (2, tr. Burton Watson 1968:49)

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finally revealed to be a practice world for aliens intent on real-world domination.

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the present, the first proposition must be taken to be true. Additionally there are

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Campbell, Tom; Owhadi, Houman; Sauvageau, Joe; Watkinson, David (June 17, 2017).

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Some theorists have argued that if the "consciousness-is-computation" version of

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Human civilization or a comparable civilization is unlikely to reach a level of

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would contain every algorithm, including those that implement consciousness.

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the prior probability that is assigned to the existence of other universes.

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Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes On the Cosmos

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was partially inspired by the Bostrom essay on the simulation hypothesis.

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dreaming, in which case many of his beliefs about the world are incorrect;

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Jaeger, Gregg (2018). "Clockwork Rebooted: Is the Universe a Computer?".

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Both the dream argument and the simulation hypothesis can be regarded as

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The philosophical underpinnings of this argument are also brought up by

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that say that colors could have appeared differently than they do (the

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Hut, P.; Alford, M.; Tegmark, M. (2006). "On Math, Matter and Mind".

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Another high-profile proponent of the hypothesis is astrophysicist

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A 2017 episode of the long-running British science fiction series

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https://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1631134/FULLTEXT01.pdf

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Simulation down to molecular level of very small sample of matter

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Arguments, within the trilemma, against the simulation hypothesis

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providing poetic and philosophical metaphors. For example, the "

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theorized that the world was a painting or book written by the

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Beane, Silas R.; Davoudi, Zohreh; J. Savage, Martin (2014).

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and thus admits of simulation. This argument states that a "

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has argued that simulated beings might wonder whether their

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Davies, P. C. W. (2004). "Multiverse Cosmological Models".

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Dainton, Barry (2012). "On singularities and simulations".

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Conitzer, Vincent (2019). "A Puzzle about Further Facts".

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can be traced back to antiquity; for example, to the "

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Hypothesis that reality could be a computer simulation

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A History of Philosophy, Volume IV: Modern Philosophy

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Guan, Chong; Mou, Jian; Jiang, Zhiying (2020-12-01).

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that obtains.' But different people pick a different

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humans are almost certainly living in a simulation.

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