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Advanced AI research or measurements at the frontiers of cosmology may be necessary to determine whether or not we reside within another person's computer
Do We Exist in a Simulacrum? About 50/50 is the likelihood. Image source: Getty Images Rarely does a comic address the fundamental principles of physics in a way that gives an astrophysicist goosebumps. On a recent episode of the podcast StarTalk, comedian Chuck Nice did, however, succeed in doing precisely that. Neil deGrasse Tyson, the host of the program, has just outlined the simulation thesis, which puts up the notion that we might actually be computer simulations of virtual creatures.
Do We Exist in a Simulacrum? About 50/50 is the likelihood. Image source: Getty Images Rarely does a comic address the fundamental principles of physics in a way that gives an astrophysicist goosebumps. On a recent episode of the podcast StarTalk, comedian Chuck Nice did, however, succeed in doing precisely that. Neil deGrasse Tyson, the host of the program, has just outlined the simulation thesis, which puts up the notion that we might actually be computer simulations of virtual creatures.
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