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Virtual reality technology is making great advances, but it has also helped popularise a theory long debated by philosophers and now gaining supporters in Silicon Valley – that the outside world is itself a simulation
Have you ever wondered if life is not exactly what it’s cracked up to be? OK, let’s take that thought a little further. Have you ever suffered from an identity crisis? Yes? One in which you suspected that you’re not a real person, but instead an extremely sophisticated computer simulation of a real person produced by an immensely more developed civilisation than that which we take to be our own?
It’s just possible that I lost you on that last point, but stay with me, because the reality we take for granted is coming under increasing technological and theoretical threat.
There’s a religious element to the notion of a giant simulation, a sense that there is a higher, purer reality
Related: Constructed reality: are we living in a computer simulation? – tech podcast
Related: Yuval Noah Harari: ‘Homo sapiens as we know them will disappear in a century or so’
April 22, 2017 at 02:16PM
from Andrew Anthony
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