Are we living in a computer simulation?

Read in this New York Times article how Nick Bostrom, an Oxford University philosopher, reasons that it’s mathematically likely that our universe is simply someone else’s computer simulation.  But according to Bostrom,  the situation isn’t even as hopeful as that portrayed in The Matrix.  He argues that our existence is simply a network of computer circuits.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/science/14tier.html 

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