Timeline for How would society react if they found indisputable proof that the universe is a virtual reality?
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| Jul 27, 2015 at 6:24 | comment | added | user867 | "each individual could apply Descartes' logic to prove that they exist independent of the simulation" - Not really. They could prove that they exist, but since the mechanism of self-awareness is not understood, they haven't actually proven that their existence is independent of the simulation; In fact, it may just be that the simulation is sufficiently complex to support self-awareness, in much the same way that we currently assume that the universe is sufficiently complex to support self-awareness. | |
| Feb 22, 2015 at 18:46 | comment | added | Michael | "This doesn't actually prove what you are though" is an interesting though: just because you are real doesn't mean that you aren't also a simulation, or something like that. Or to put it another way, just because you are living in a simulation doesn't invalidate it's validity - to you. | |
| Feb 22, 2015 at 4:46 | history | answered | Rob Watts | CC BY-SA 3.0 |