Are we living in a simulation?

[magin]

This is cool. Are we living in a simulation?

Simulations are cool. We ARE living in a simulation - I knew it!

Comments

[explodi]

I'm not sure about that... I would argue that a simulation is by definition imperfect- and where one becomes sufficiently complex to be identical to the real thing, the distinction becomes irrelevent. Otherwise the argument must be a re-statement of a kind of Platonism in which we are creaking automatons representing more perfect higher entities (who in this case, are unreachable dead ancestors).

[explodi]

PS, Ramsey Dukes has written a whole book
on the simulation theory and it's implications.

[thepixy]

I do not agree with this man! Nor do I agree with you, ma ma, for making me read this so early in my day.
Harumph.