Are we living in a computer simulation?

Nick Bostrom's paper asking whether we are living in a computer simulation. The companion cites it only in the speculative Box 5, for the estimate that one star could compute the whole mental history of humankind in a microsecond or less. Box 5 rests on a sixth premise, that minds are what such computation does.

Cited in

the companion paper (Companion Box 5)

Used for

C3Box 5 (endocosm, speculative); C3

Strand

The long arc: cosmology & far futures · Self-replicating expansion & simulated worlds

Cite

@article{bostrom2003living,
  title = {Are we living in a computer simulation?},
  author = {Nick Bostrom},
  year = {2003},
  journal = {The Philosophical Quarterly},
  doi = {10.1111/1467-9213.00309},
}