Are you Living in a Computer Simulation?

This is a famous article of Nick Bostrom from 2002 (published in Philosophical Quaterly). I saw this first in a seminar on anti-realistic theories of truth.<p>If we are indeed living inside a simulation, what knowledge can we have about an external world?<p>You might also enjoy a discussion of the "brains in a vat" hypothesis: <a href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/brain-vat/" rel="nofollow">http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/brain-vat/</a>

The following might be rubbish, but it also might be very relevant: <a href="http://prespacetime.com/index.php/pst/article/view/18" rel="nofollow">http://prespacetime.com/index.php/pst/article/view/18</a><p>If you believe (I do), this one might give some pointers to you: <a href="http://www.transhumanist.com/volume7/simulation.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.transhumanist.com/volume7/simulation.html</a>

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Somehow I feel like this explains the decline effect.