The Simulation Argument

[Argonaut]

I recently came across the site of Professor Nick Bostrom (_http://www.simulation-argument.com), who has formulated a scientific argument that we may literally be living within a computer simulation. Has anyone else here heard of this? The argument revolves around three possibilities: 1) Humans will go extinct before being able to create such simulations; 2) Humans will never be willing and/or able to create them; 3) Humans in the far future will be both willing and able to run realistic simulations of Earth's history. And if scenario 3) is true then they would likely run a large number of such simulations for various purposes. So taking things as a whole, there would be far more simulated humans experiencing simulated history than actual humans living through real history. Meaning there's a good chance we'd be among the former.

Apparently Prof. Bostrom's Simulation argument is very well known. I had no idea something like this was being taken seriously within scientific circles. His logic seems sound to me, but how could we ever know? And would it even matter? If the simulation were real enough, it would essentially be the same as living through actual history. Maybe there's little value in even discussing this, but it does make me wonder. It's one of those "brain-twister" type of things.

 

[realitybugll]

I just came across this, searching in google "The reality we live in".

I have not read the whole paper--but reading the abstract and the introduction I think his argument is interesting and has some truth to it. I mean, the C's say that we, the human race, are literally creations of "somethings" imagination. I think 6D.