It's the same question, just dressed in scientific language. We could write a program that detects if it's running on a real or emulated iPhone, but that's bec

It's the same question, just dressed in scientific language. We could write a program that detects if it's running on a real or emulated iPhone, but that's because we know both those environments from the outside. I think Boström poses interesting questions, but I don't believe it's possible to make an experiment to test this from the inside.