The idea that we are living inside a simulation used to be little more than the brainwave of pot-smoking teenagers and people who took The Matrix a bit too seriously. But since the early 2000s, the tide has started to change.
In 2003, Nick Bostrom published a paper arguing that if we accept a reasonable set of assumptions, we are almost certainly living in a simulation. To this day, philosophers and physicists alike have failed to find a good reason to reject this staggering conclusion. Could it really be the case that our universe is no more than code in the computer of some highly advanced civilization? And, if Bostrom is right, what effect might this discovery have upon our lives?
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E25 Thanks for Listening
E24 Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
E23 GUEST: Sam Rickless on Philosophy and the Meaning of Life
E22 Wolf: Meaningful Lives in a World Devoid of Meaning
E21 Nagel and the Absurd
E20 The Philosophy of Time Travel
E19 GUEST: Peter Singer on Morality, Meaning, and Cancel Culture
E18 Life Extension: Cryonics and Mind Uploading
E17 The Fermi Paradox
E15 The Pessimism of Schopenhauer
E14 Buddhism: Meditation and Mindfulness
E13 Buddhism: The Path to Nirvana
E12 Anti-Natalism: Why Having Children Is Wrong
E11 Sartre and Existentialism
E10 GUEST: Liam Ward on Camus and the Absurd
E9 Altruism: How to do Good Effectively
E8 Altruism: The Case for Doing Good
E7 Freedom and Happiness
E6 The Psychedelic Experience: The Acid Tests
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