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Are we in a simulation?

Are we in a simulation?

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Michele Reilly
Sep 15, 2023
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The idea that the world might be a simulation depends on the idea that the world is the sort of thing that can be simulated with a computer. According to the Church Turing Thesis, at least in principle, any physical process can be simulated at any level of resolution.  This is the reason today’s popular speculation reg…

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