Nerdfilter � Are We Real?
From Plato to Buddha to Kafka to Philip K. Dick, on to the Wachowski brothers, the question has been posed many times: could reality be some kind of illusion, a dream; a simulation? Guess what- it’s not just the domain of sci-fi writers & stoned people anymore. It’s serious academic thought.
Are we real? Is all that we experience a simulation of some kind? Do we ourselves even actually exist in the sense we understand it?
‘We obviously can’t conceive of what a super-intelligence might be able to achieve any more than a dog can appreciate quantum mechanics.’
Are you reading this because you randomly came upon it, or because you were meant to read it? Or did you, in fact, create it? You’ve dreamed this before, haven’t you?
I <3 science.
Are we real? Is all that we experience a simulation of some kind? Do we ourselves even actually exist in the sense we understand it?
‘We obviously can’t conceive of what a super-intelligence might be able to achieve any more than a dog can appreciate quantum mechanics.’
Are you reading this because you randomly came upon it, or because you were meant to read it? Or did you, in fact, create it? You’ve dreamed this before, haven’t you?
I <3 science.
posted by Monkeyman @ 1/18/2005 Perm Link
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