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Is there any scientific evidence disproving the notion we are part of a vast simulation run by an advanced civilisation?
Nick Canning
Coleraine, County Londonderry, UK
What sort of simulation are you considering? The Matrix films envisioned a large, multiplayer “game” in which protagonists existed both within the game, in the form of simulated information, and outside the simulation, as flesh and blood.
But how do you know that this second level isn’t part of a larger simulation? An infinite regression is thus possible, invoking ever larger simulations and requiring ever larger computing resources (memory, processing power and energy consumption).…
