Comments on: And the (simulated?) beat goes on http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/7383 Feel Smart Again Sun, 8 Nov 2009 17:20:56 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: n2y2 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/7383/comment-page-1#comment-20998 n2y2 Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:10:33 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/7383#comment-20998 Thank you for bring this up. I always get the you-are-off-your-rocker look when I try to tell people that it really could be. I first read about the possibility in a formal journal (Science?) around 1995. A few years later 'The Matrix' hit theaters. The idea sounds ludicrous when you are first introduced to it, but given time, it starts to make sense. I have heard other experts put the odds at much more likely than 20% If you want to see a movie about virtual worlds, forget 'The Matrix'; those movies are actually focus on the fate-vs-destiny argument using a virtual world as the backdrop. 'The Thirteenth Floor' is actual about creating virtual worlds and the moral dilemmas posed by establishing these artificial consciousnesses. Both movies were released about a month apart, so 'The Thirteenth Floor' got labeled as a knock-off. Not so! If you are interested in the topic you can get if from Netflix. Thank you for bring this up. I always get the you-are-off-your-rocker look when I try to tell people that it really could be.

I first read about the possibility in a formal journal (Science?) around 1995. A few years later ‘The Matrix’ hit theaters. The idea sounds ludicrous when you are first introduced to it, but given time, it starts to make sense. I have heard other experts put the odds at much more likely than 20%

If you want to see a movie about virtual worlds, forget ‘The Matrix’; those movies are actually focus on the fate-vs-destiny argument using a virtual world as the backdrop. ‘The Thirteenth Floor’ is actual about creating virtual worlds and the moral dilemmas posed by establishing these artificial consciousnesses.

Both movies were released about a month apart, so ‘The Thirteenth Floor’ got labeled as a knock-off. Not so! If you are interested in the topic you can get if from Netflix.

]]> By: ashleyd http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/7383/comment-page-1#comment-20952 ashleyd Fri, 17 Aug 2007 16:45:54 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/7383#comment-20952 Not to discredit any of Dr Bostrom's work or the possibility that we are living in a simulated reality, but how does "20% chance we're living in a computer simulation" become "we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation"? If the 20% is his gut feeling, where is this almost certainly coming from? Not to discredit any of Dr Bostrom’s work or the possibility that we are living in a simulated reality, but how does “20% chance we’re living in a computer simulation” become “we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation”? If the 20% is his gut feeling, where is this almost certainly coming from?

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