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Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?
a reference site to a collection of papers concerning the simulation argument
28 Jan 09
Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?
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may be possible for simulated civilizations to become posthuman. They may then
run their own ancestor-simulations on powerful computers they build in their simulated
universe. Such computers would be “virtual machines”, a familiar concept in computer
science. (Java script web-applets, for instance, run on a virtual machine – a
simulated computer – inside your desktop.) Virtual machines can be stacked: it’s
possible to simulate a machine simulating another machine, and so on, in arbitrarily
many steps of iteration. If we do go on to create our own ancestor-simulations,
this would be strong evidence against (1) and (2), and we would therefore have to conclude that we live
in a simulation. Moreover, we would have to suspect that the posthumans running
our simulation are themselves simulated beings; and their creators, in turn, may
also be simulated beings.Reality
may thus contain many levels.
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