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Don't want to make any judgements on the nature of reality, but I find it amusing that we went from thinking a pantheon of gods made the world, to a single god,

• HillRat 10y ago
  In fact, I'd argue that simulationism is actually ontological simulationism, similar in some fundamental ways to Anselm's proof of the existence of God. As far as provability goes, simulationism comes up empty; you have to assume certain a priori concepts (tractable hard AI, the ability to cheaply simulate a near-infinite number of lives, time and energy availability, etc) in order to hand-wave the denominator into existence. At that point, if you want to advance this past an amusing and somewhat illuminating philosophical toy, you might as well substitute God, or gods, in for their higher-dimensional alien programmers.
• napsterbr 10y ago
  I'm completely new to philosophy but I'd like to read a little bit about it. Any chance you or some HNer could recommend a starting point?
  • Fezzik 10y ago
    I highly recommend the History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps Podcast: http://historyofphilosophy.net http://historyofphilosophy.net. It gives a great cursory overview of (many of) the seminal events and is a great diving board to see what you may like to explore - the corpus of what you can study is gigantic. As a degree holder in Philosophy I would have killed for a podcast like this; I have no affiliation with the podcast or its producers.
• sopooneo 10y ago
  I had the same thought. And I wonder, if we assume we are in a simulation, are we "in his/her/their image"?