What's amazing to me is that this question of a simulated reality would not have even been possible to comprehend 150 years ago. I don't think you're giving en

What's amazing to me is that this question of a simulated reality would not have even been possible to comprehend 150 years ago. I don't think you're giving enough credit to thinkers of the past. They didn't have the technology that lets us play with some of these ideas more directly, but they were still very capable of thinking through the philosophical ramifications. Descartes' Meditations comes to mind: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes-epistemology/#3.2 https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes-epistemology/#3...