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| − | The '''Simulation Argument''' is one of a number of ideas relating to the '''Simulation Hypothesis'''. The important distinction between this argument and earlier Simulation models has been the addition of a proposed method of engineering Simulated Reality through the use of computers and the assumption that the conscious beings themselves are simulated, rather than merely "brains in a vat"
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| − | Nick Bostrom's paper '''Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?''' argues that one of following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof); (3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation. It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation.
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| − | ==References==
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| − | Bostrom, Nick (2001,2003) *[http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.pdf Are You Living in a Computer Simulation] Philosophical Quarterly (2003) Vol. 53, No. 211, pp. 243‐255.
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| − | Bostrom, Nick (2011) *[http://www.simulation-argument.com/patch.pdf A Patch for the Simulation Argument] Analysis, Vol. 71, No. 1 (2011): 54-61
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| − | ==External Links==
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| − | *[http://www.simulation-argument.com/ Nick Bostrom's Simulation Argument Resource page]
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