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Are you living in a computer simulation?
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This paper argues that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a "posthuman" stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof); (3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation. It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor-simu...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Author's original, pdf, 94.0KB)
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- 10.1111/1467-9213.00309
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Blackwell Publishing Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Philosophical Quarterly Journal website
- Volume:
- 53
- Issue:
- 211
- Pages:
- 243-255
- Publication date:
- 2003-04-01
- DOI:
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1467-9213
- ISSN:
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0031-8094
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- Language:
- English
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- Local pid:
- ora:1666
- Deposit date:
- 2008-03-14
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- Copyright holder:
- Bostrom, N
- Copyright date:
- 2003
- Notes:
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The definitive version of this article is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com’.
Citation: Bostrom, N. (2003). 'Are you living in a computer simulation?, Philosophical Quarterly, 53 (211), 243-255.
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