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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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Are we living in a simulation? The evidence
Nick Bostrum writes in “ARE YOU LIVING IN A COMPUTER SIMULATION?”
Suppose that these simulated people are conscious (as they would be if
the simulations were sufficiently fine‐grained and if a …
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How does the 'Brain in a Vat Argument' differ from the 'Simulation Argument'?
One difference between the brain in a vat argument and the simulation argument is their motivations. The brain in a vat argument is motivated to support skepticism through doubting one's senses. The s …
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Occam's razor and the Multiverse Hypotesis
According to Wikipedia the association of Occam's razor to many worlds goes back to Hugh Everett who originated the idea of many worlds in 1957:
Since the wavefunction merely appears to have colla …
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If a person claims to know anything could it be disproven by saying 'prove that we are not i...
Consider what the second person said:
You cannot prove that we are not in a simulation and that anything is real, hence you cannot prove that your claim was true.
This may be an example of an ar …
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Understanding the simulation argument
I have paraphrased Nick Bostrum's three options in the chart below. A posthuman stage is when we are able to make sims. A sim is a human being simulated by a computer that is indistinguishable from ou …
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