ARE WE SIMS? HOW COMPUTER SIMULATIONS REPRESENT AND WHAT THIS MEANS FOR THE SIMULATION ARGUMENT.

N. Bostrom's simulation argument and two additional assumptions imply that we likely live in a computer simulation. The argument is based upon the following assumption about the workings of realistic brain simulations: The hardware of a computer on which a brain simulation is run bears a close analo...

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Publicado en:Monist Vol. 97; no. 3; pp. 399 - 418
Autor principal: Beisbart, Claus
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Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Jul2014
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