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David Chalmers: Are We Living in a Simulation?

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Is There a Difference to Our Reality?

If you spend a lot of time in a virtual world where if you make a bad choice, you can simply go back to the last safe point and carry on again. Ait, there's a sort of sense in which that life would seem less soet nificant fom ours. That would seem like a world that we were kind of gaming or manipulating. So i guess i'd better hope that reality has not been set up in that perverse way. I think some dreams at least, are more like playing out of te script rather than these entities genuinely have a lot of different causal potentialities interacting with each other. They're less real in that sense. The other question is whether they

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