Some Researchers Debate if we are Living in a Computer Simulation

Some experts think we are living in a computer simulation and that our reality is instead like a video game. But could we ever know for sure?

By Avery Hurt
Jul 11, 2022 10:00 PM
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If you’ve seen the movie The Matrix, you’re familiar with the simulation hypothesis — the idea that reality is instead a sophisticated computer simulation, or a video game. We’re not organic beings, but characters that a vastly more advanced civilization created in an intricate computer program.

We might be a part of a scientific experiment, or we could be entertainment. But one way or another, we aren’t what we think we are. This all may sound a little out there, but many scientists and philosophers take the idea quite seriously.

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