Are We Living Inside a Computer Simulation The popular film trilogy The Matrix presented a cyberuniverse where humans live in a simulated reality created by sentient machines Now a philosopher and team of physicists imagine that we might really be living inside a computer generated universe that you could call The Lattice What s more we may be able to detect it In 2003 British philosopher Nick Bostrom published a paper that proposed the universe we live in might in fact really be a numerical computer simulation To give this a bizarre Twilight Zone twist he suggested that our far evolved distant descendants might construct such a program to simulate the past and recreate how their remote ancestors lived He felt that such an experiment was inevitable for a supercivilization If it didn t happen by now then in meant that humanity never evolved that far and we re doomed to a short lifespan as a species he argued Read more

Are We Living Inside a Computer Simulation?

The popular film trilogy, The Matrix, presented a cyberuniverse where humans live in a simulated reality created by sentient machines.

Now, a philosopher and team of physicists imagine that we might really be living inside a computer-generated universe that you could call The Lattice. What's more, we may be able to detect it.

In 2003, British philosopher Nick Bostrom published a paper that proposed the universe we live in might in fact really be a numerical computer simulation. To give this a bizarre Twilight Zone twist, he suggested that our far-evolved distant descendants might construct such a program to simulate the past and recreate how their remote ancestors lived.

He felt that such an experiment was inevitable for a supercivilization. If it didn't happen by now, then in meant that humanity never evolved that far and we're doomed to a short lifespan as a species, he argued.

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