Until I talked to Nick Bostrom, a philosopher at Oxford University, it never occurred to me that our universe might be somebody else’s hobby. I hadn’t imagined that the omniscient, omnipotent creator of the heavens and earth could be an advanced version of a guy who spends his weekends building model railroads or overseeing video-game worlds like the Sims. But now it seems quite possible. In fact, if you accept a pretty reasonable assumption of Dr. Bostrom’s, it is almost a mathematical certainty that we are living in someone else’s computer simulation.
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I'd not leave. I mean...why bother?Perception is reality.
But even if we are all some sort of construct or simulation then why is it that ppl seem to be drawing such a limited perspective as to identify with the plot from the matrix movies? I mean for all we know, the human/alien race obliterated itself and this 'simulation' is all that's left of a civilization. No life, just code running on computers left for all eternity... or perhaps our idea of a computer is misaligned and we're all actually part of a collection SINGULARITY... an entity that is so complex that we all run around in its single 'brain'... when we die its cause he/she/it 'forgot' us or has reached the end of thinking about us...
