Are You Living in a Computer (Game)?
Are You Living in a Computer (Game)?
Author(s): Walter BartaSubject(s): Social Sciences, Media studies, Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life, Communication studies, Sociology, Theory of Communication, Scientific Life
Published by: Univerzita sv. Cyrila a Metoda v Trnave, Fakulta masmediálnej komunikácie
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Summary/Abstract: First, we can reconstruct the simulation argument from Bostrom’s “Are you living in a computer simulation?” (2003, p. 243), more recently and lengthily defended by Chalmers (2022). As the argument goes, at least one of the following must be true:• S1. 100% of civilizations go extinct before making computer simulations.• S2. 100% of civilizations will never make computer simulations of ancestors.• S3. We are probably living in such an ancestor simulation.
Journal: Acta Ludologica
- Issue Year: 7/2024
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 168-170
- Page Count: 3
- Language: English
