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Are we living in a simulation?

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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What's the Difference Between Physical Reality and Hallucinations?

hallucinations, like the kind you get in your mental disorders at least, are internally generated. So yes, there is something real, there's happening, but only something which is real inside the mind. And that gets us back to the criterion about reality as not being an illusion. Well, something you've alluded to a couple of times is dissimulation hypothesis,. This idea that maybe our entire world is a simulation onsome and super computer, or something like that. The oxford philosopher, nick bostrumwh has famously argued that at least one or three things is true.

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