Maybe what you would choose for your simulation is something very much like your present life on Earth, and that simple thought has led several philosophers to wonder whether we’re already living in a simulation. While that idea seems fantastical, we already know how easily we can be fooled into accepting our reality: every night we fall asleep and have bizarre dreams – and while we’re there we believe those worlds entirely. Questions about our reality are not new. Two thousand three hundred years ago, the Chinese philosopher Chuang Tzu dreamt he was a butterfly. Upon waking, he considered
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