Did you know there’s a chance we could be living inside a video game right now? With titles like Sid Meier’s Civilization, The Sims and Grand Theft Auto we already have some amazing life-simulation games, and if computers keep advancing, the simulations will inevitably get better and more realistic, which is why some philosophers and prominent scientists believe that it’s possible we’re living in one already.
The theory that we’re living in a simulation was made popular by The Matrix in 1999, but it got a bit of academic credibility with the Simulation Argument, which was written by Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom in 2003. One of his main arguments is that it’s inevitable that historical simulations will happen because human progress is always moving forward. Therefore, at some point computers will be powerful enough to simulate a universe.
