255. David Chalmers — Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Dissimulation Hypothesis
If you buy into the many worlds interpretation of cono mechanics, each of us may be constantly falking into into evermore individuals. Which one is we the original? I don't know. Maybe they all are. And then you start thinking, ok, so in principle, there could be a thousand simulated universes for every unsimulated universe. And then what are the odds that i'm one of the the unsimulated ones? Well, if you follow the through, you might think, out whyno, a thousand. It's probably at least 50 50 that enough intelligent civilizations will survive and produce, ah produce, many simulated universes. In turn, te multiplying that got me 25
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