![]() ![]() The idea explores the fact that our brains gather information from reality through our sensory organs if we bypass them, feeding information straight to the relevant parts of the brain, we can trick it to think it lives in a world that is a fabrication. This is the main idea in a few sci-fi movies, the most famous being The Matrix, with Keanu Reeves as Neo, the redeemer of our slavery. That being the case, asks Bostrom, how do we know we are not in an alien-developed simulation, or in a simulation that our own descendants created? ![]() The same way that we, today, play video games with characters that progressively resemble real people, it's possible to imagine a future where computers are so sophisticated that simulations (the "games") are essentially indistinguishable from reality. (Now, that's a really cool job title.)īostrom is well-known for his famous argument that there is a real chance that we live in a simulation, or, even more dramatically, that we are a computer simulation. I recently started reading Superintelligence, a new book by Oxford University philosopher Nick Bostrom, who is also director of the Future of Humanity Institute. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. ![]() Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Superintelligence Subtitle Paths, Dangers, Strategies Author Nick Bostrom ![]()
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