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Simulation hypothesis

Wikipedia contributors · 2024 · Wikipedia

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Overview of the simulation hypothesis from Bostrom forward, including the core trilemma, technological assumptions, skeptical critiques, and pop-cultural reception.

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Companion to Bostrom's original paper; useful for reception history and for distinguishing the formal argument from looser simulation speculation.

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2024
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Linked claims

Evidence score 3/10
Simulation Theory

Nick Bostrom's 2003 trilemma: civilizations don't reach the simulation stage, or don't run simulations, or we are almost certainly in one. The argument is rigorous; whether any horn is true is empirically open.

Related evidence hubs

Topic hub
Reality & Time

Physics-adjacent worldviews — block universe, many-worlds, simulation, free will.

Evidence pillar
Reality & time models

Block universe, presentism, eternalism, emergent time.

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Physics-adjacent worldview theories

Many-worlds, simulation, mathematical universe.

Related sources

Philosophy reference · context
Fine-Tuning

Frames the anthropic / multiverse / design debate that simulation, mathematical-universe, and theism claims all engage with.

Journal article · context
Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?

The canonical primary source for the simulation hypothesis as a philosophical argument.