Questions tagged [simulated-universe]
It was Nick Bostrom who coined the "simulation hypothesis" but the concept of a simulated universe touches upon many related ideas: from Descartes' "evil genius" to Edgar Allan Poe's "Dream within a dream". Use this tag when manifest reality is contingent on the machination of a more "real" domain.
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Would a sentient program have an afterlife when it has been deleted? [closed]
With the premise that what we experience is a base reality.
If we created a simulation inhabited with sentient programs.
Would we be responsible for that programs experience after it was deleted?
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Does the teleological approach to philosophy of history build a foundation for simulation theory?
Christopher Lloyd puts forward four "general concepts of causation" used in history:
the "metaphysical idealist concept", which asserts that the phenomena of the universe are ...
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Why we are coded with the idea of religion and its concepts if we are living in a computer simulation? [closed]
We all know that Nick Bostrom's cliche argument in favor of Simulation Hypothesis.
I am wondering if my question can downgrade the Bostrom's hypothesis.
Lets assume that we are living in a computer ...
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Can simulation hypothesis be cracked by the problem of evil?
We all know that Nick Bostrom's cliche argument in favor of Simulation Hypothesis.
My question is very simple and I am wondering if it can crack the Bostrom's hypothesis.
Lets assume that we are ...
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Does this argument support the simulation hypothesis?
https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmaker_analogy
Does this argument support the simulation hypothesis?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis
Induction and argument by analogy is ...
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Academic research on technical and philosophical possibilities of the world in a computer simulator?
This question is as mainstream as it gets in online publications.
But, does more serious and balanced academic research exist on this subject?
If your PhD student were writing an article on this ...
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Does it make sense for an omniscient being to be able to give an answer about the universe without any internal processing?
It makes little sense to speculate about the mind of God. Anyway...
If God wants to know if it will snow today in Bergen, I would imagine that there are 2 approaches to 'solving' this question
God ...
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Deterministic simulation and Pascal's mugging
So the canonical description of Pascal's mugging involves simulation, and torment, of a large number of self-aware beings. What makes it even worse is that it involves a Turing machine doing the ...
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Is it possible to simulate a world within a world?
I would argue that it is not possible to create a simulation of a world within a world.
I can only imagine that a simulation of our world could be done within a computer?
A computer has a finite ...
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Does the simulation hypothesis bring back certain ideas long rejected by skeptics and typically associated with religious believes?
The following ideas have long been rejected by the scientific skeptical community as superstitious and incompatible with reason:
That the universe has been designed by intelligent being(s) - the so-...
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What is the likelihood that human civilization is just a petri dish to an alien race? [closed]
Not to confuse with simulation theory, but how possible is it that we (humans) were placed/created on Earth by aliens to create an observable simulation of civilization?
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How Do We Understand our Existence? [closed]
I apologize if I tag this post incorrectly as this is my very first post. I’m rather new to philosophical topics and I find myself constrained in a state of disassociation. How do I know I’m here?
I ...
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Is it possible to simulate a reality like ours using other logic than classical logic?
Are there alternative logical systems that could serve as a foundation for simulating a reality similar to ours, given that non-classical logics such as paraconsistent logic, while applicable in ...
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The supposed "knockdown argument" for Simulation Theory -- what did I miss? (IF we can create simulations indistinguishable from reality...)
I have never read any extensive formulation of the argument; I've only listened to people (like Elon) lay it out in Youtube videos; so I don't know what it's called or how to lay it out with rigour; ...
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How to distinguish the species of „real“ persons from the species of simulated persons?
Today I learned from an academic talk given by Prof. Gilles Brassard (Montreal): In the context of artificial intelligence one discusses not only civilizations (level 1) which are simulated by ...
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