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Why does it matter if we are in a simulation or not?

• dspillett 13y ago
  It changes the whole "why do we exist at all" question completely. If we are inside a simulation we may never be able to see outside to the true nature of reality. Instead of being part of the an explanation for the big bang, black wholes could just be a bug. Inflation could simply be due to the people running the simulation wanting to skip that long drawn out expansion bit so they could study something else. Of course for our day to day lives it doesn't matter a jot. I still have to work to earn money to pay the mortgage, even if my job, my money, my house and the bank don't really exist in the real universe... Of course you could consider the simulation and the life within it to be equally real: I think I am thinking, therefore I quite possibly may be. This makes it even less relevant to those of us who are not philosophers or theoretical physicists.
• lewispollard 13y ago
  Why does anything matter at all?