From Ray Villard's 12-16-12 Discovery.com article entitled
"Are We Living Inside a Computer Simulation?":
In 2003, British philosopher Nick Bostrom
published a paper that proposed the universe we live in might
in fact really be a numerical computer simulation. To give this a bizarre Twilight Zone twist, he suggested
that our far-evolved distant descendants might construct such a program to
simulate the past and recreate how their remote ancestors lived.
He felt that such an experiment was
inevitable for a supercivilization. If it didn't happen by now, then in meant
that humanity never evolved that far and we're doomed to a short lifespan as a
species, he argued.
To extrapolate further, I'd suggest that artificial intelligent entities descended from us
would be curious about looking back in time by simulating the universe of their
biological ancestors.
As off-the-wall as this sounds, a team of
physicists at the University of Washington (UW) recently announced that
there is a potential test to seen if we actually live in The Lattice.
Ironically, it would be the first such observation for scientifically hypothesized evidence
of intelligent design behind the cosmos.
Villard's article can be seen in its entirety HERE.
Katherine Long's 12-15-12 Seattle Times article, "Living in a Simulated
World," reports on the very same study in a somewhat more concise manner and can be
read HERE.
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