It either makes sense or gives you a headache, what do you think?
If at any point in the future, there is technology invented that can run simulations of the past, it would mean that there is a 50/50 chance that our lives are just a simulation of the past.
It’s kind of like “if time travel is possible in the future, then we would already have it.”
Here is an excerpt from the original study.
[quote]One thing that later generations might do with their super-powerful computers is run detailed simulations of their forebears or of people like their forebears. Because their computers would be so powerful, they could run a great many such simulations. Suppose that these simulated people are conscious (as they would be if the simulations were sufficiently fine-grained and if a certain quite widely accepted position in the philosophy of mind is correct). Then it could be the case that the vast majority of minds like ours do not belong to the original race but rather to people simulated by the advanced descendants of an original race. It is then possible to argue that, if this were the case, we would be rational to think that we are likely among the simulated minds rather than among the original biological ones. Therefore, if we don’t think that we are currently living in a computer simulation, we are not entitled to believe that we will have descendants who will run lots of such simulations of their forebears.[/quote]
Some philosophy for sw 🧐
https://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html
https://www.simulation-argument.com/matrix-spanish.html
It’s kind of like “if time travel is possible in the future, then we would already have it.”
Here is an excerpt from the original study.
[quote]One thing that later generations might do with their super-powerful computers is run detailed simulations of their forebears or of people like their forebears. Because their computers would be so powerful, they could run a great many such simulations. Suppose that these simulated people are conscious (as they would be if the simulations were sufficiently fine-grained and if a certain quite widely accepted position in the philosophy of mind is correct). Then it could be the case that the vast majority of minds like ours do not belong to the original race but rather to people simulated by the advanced descendants of an original race. It is then possible to argue that, if this were the case, we would be rational to think that we are likely among the simulated minds rather than among the original biological ones. Therefore, if we don’t think that we are currently living in a computer simulation, we are not entitled to believe that we will have descendants who will run lots of such simulations of their forebears.[/quote]
Some philosophy for sw 🧐
https://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html
https://www.simulation-argument.com/matrix-spanish.html
