Thursday, November 27, 2003

Are You Living In a Computer Simulation?

I ran across this web page while performing a Google search looking for computer troubleshooting simulations. The Simulation Argument is both a web page and a hypothesis by Nick Bostrom, a Philosophy Research Fellow at Oxford University. Dr. Bostrom posits that it is likely that we either are, or soon will be, living within a computer simulation rather than actually participating physically in what we’re mentally experiencing.

This website includes ‘scholarly investigations’ into the idea that we are living what we watched Keanu Reeves ‘acting’ through in the Matrix Trilogy, as well as a link to Dr. Bostrom’s homepage, which discusses a number of other hypotheses, all of which are best considered when one is really, really, really stoned.

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