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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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Physicalists consider virtual reality generated in our brains a science. But is it?
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Physicalists consider virtual reality generated in our brains a science.
No. Physicalists don't consider events or entities to be "a science." Rather, science is a social practice and metho …
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How is the universe able to run physics so smoothly?
The universe is not running an advanced simulation. The events and items in the universe are what it is. There is nothing for the universe to "pull off." It could not do otherwise.
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What is the likelihood that human civilization is just a petri dish to an alien race?
If you are asking for a frequentist interpretation, then the likelihood is unknowable until we discover the truth of the situation. Then we will discover that the likelihood was either 1 or 0 all alon …
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