Posted: Nov 08, 2018 7:42 pm
But there are reasons to think that our universe isn't a simulation, that's why very few philosophers think Bostrom's argument succeeds. Come to that, do you know of any philosopher who does think it succeeds? There are the likes of Schmidhuber who endorse Zuse's thesis, but that doesn't require any simulating external world.scott1328 wrote:The whole point, I think, is that if simulating entire universes is possible, then there is no reason to think that our universe is not a simulation. . . .