A curious idea
What is reality?
How can we be sure that we are not a computer simulation?
Nick Bostrom wonders about this on his website:
The Simulation Argument:
The Simulation Argument
ABSTRACT. This paper argues that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof); (3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation. It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor-simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation. A number of other consequences of this result are also discussed.
Makes Alice's rabbit hole positively tame by comparison...
Posted by DaveH at May 21, 2007 7:15 PM