What is the academic reasoning behind believing we live in a simulation?
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In short, there are 3 possibilities:
1: humanity (or any other species for that matter) never decides to run simulations of reality because either they decide it’s too cruel or we never achieve the computing power.
2: humanity or other does run simulations but we are the real ones. In this situation the world we live in is the one that in the future will run simulations of reality and thus we still live in reality.
3: we are living in a simulation run by humanity or other
The idea is that when these simulations are run, there will be lots of simulations run and the ‘realities’ within these simulations will also run simulations, and then those realities will run simulations etc etc. This means that if simulations are run then there will soon become millions if not billions of different simulations.
So if we go back to our 3 possibilities the first possibility is still possible, simulations of reality require huge computing power we don’t have yet and may never have. The second possibility requires that we live in the one real ‘reality’ out of millions of simulations, this means that this possibility is incredibly unlikely. This leaves the last possibility which is that we live in a simulation.
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