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262 | Eric Schwitzgebel on the Weirdness of the World

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Living in a Simulated Reality

In this chapter, they discuss the concept of living in a simulated reality, similar to the Matrix or the video game The Sims. They explore the simulation hypothesis and the argument that consciousness could arise in artificially intelligent computational systems. They also consider the possibility of there being many simulated beings in the universe and the skepticism surrounding whether or not we are among them.

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