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Nov 21, 2015

Why it matters that you realize you’re in a computer simulation

Posted by in categories: entertainment, futurism, philosophy, virtual reality

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What if our universe is something like a computer simulation, or a virtual reality, or a video game? The proposition that the universe is actually a computer simulation was furthered in a big way during the 1970s, when John Conway famously proved that if you take a binary system, and subject that system to only a few rules (in the case of Conway’s experiment, four); then that system creates something rather peculiar.

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