When I read an article about an Australian woman found to have a living worm in her brain, I responded by declaring that “the simulation is breaking down.” I was (mostly) joking, but plenty of people far smarter than I have been increasingly speculating that none of our existence may be real. This could all be a simulation running on some AI system located wherever “reality” actually resides. The entire idea still sounds less like science than something that would be slurred out by some students visiting the pot-smoking professor in Animal House. But just this week, Elon Musk once again stated that he believes it’s entirely possible, if not probable.Read More
Is our universe a simulation and, if so, is it breaking down?
