Será que estamos a viver numa simulação de computador?
Artigo “Are you living in a computer simulation?” de Nick Bostrom, bastante interessante. Fica aqui o abstract.
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‐simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation. A number of other consequences of this result are also discussed
Artigo completo aqui.
- Luís Ramalho