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# Are We Merely Players in a Computer Simulation?
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/are-we-merely-players-in-a-computer-simulation/
- Published: 2011-08-03T22:50:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:52:14.000Z
- Description: Have you been feeling kind of weird today? Well, one reason may be that you’re glitching out. According to Nick Bostrom, philosopher at Oxford University, the chances that you’re a virtual creation living in a computer simulation are surprisingly high: This possibility rests on three developments:
- Author: Kill Screen Staff
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

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Have you been feeling kind of weird today? Well, one reason may be that you’re glitching out.[ According to Nick Bostrom](http://bigthink.com/ideas/39548?ref=killscreen.com), philosopher at Oxford University, the chances that you’re a virtual creation living in a computer simulation are surprisingly high:

> This possibility rests on three developments: (1) the aforementioned megacomputer. (2) The survival and evolution of the human race to a “posthuman” stage. (3) A decision by these posthumans to research their own evolutionary history, or simply amuse themselves, by creating us – virtual simulacra of their ancestors, with independent consciousnesses.

Horrifying, right?

*\-Richard Clark*

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