Saturday, October 18, 2014

[nuivefzr] What is real?

How can you tell if you are living in reality or living in an artificial simulation, like The Matrix?

Fall in love.  Have sex.  Do they seem real to you?  These are the experiences that evolution has given us extremely fine sensitivity to gauge.  We'll instinctively detect if something is even a little bit wrong about them; consequently they will be the most difficult things for a simulator to get right.

Cynically, if these experiences seem real enough, who cares if it is a simulation?

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