And soon we’ll have virtual reality, we’ll have augmented reality,” said Musk. Now 40 years later, we have photorealistic, 3D simulations with millions of people playing simultaneously and it’s getting better every year. “Forty years ago we had Pong – two rectangles and a dot. “Soon there will be nothing technical standing in the way to making machines that have their own consciousness,” said Rich Terrile, a scientist at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.Īt the same time, videogames are becoming more and more sophisticated and in the future we’ll be able to have simulations of conscious entities inside them.Įlon Musk on simulation: ‘The odds we’re in base reality is one in billions’ – video If we believe that there is nothing supernatural about what causes consciousness and it’s merely the product of a very complex architecture in the human brain, we’ll be able to reproduce it. Quite frankly if we are not living in a simulation it is an extraordinarily unlikely circumstance Rich Terrile, scientist at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
This argument is extrapolated from observing current trends in technology, including the rise of virtual reality and efforts to map the human brain. In a paper titled “Are You Living In a Simulation?”, Bostrom suggested that members of an advanced “posthuman” civilization with vast computing power might choose to run simulations of their ancestors in the universe. One popular argument for the simulation hypothesis, outside of acid trips, came from Oxford University’s Nick Bostrom in 2003 (although the idea dates back as far as the 17th-century philosopher René Descartes). But what does this mean? And what evidence is there that we are, in fact, living in The Matrix? If it sounds a lot like The Matrix, that’s because it is.Īccording to this week’s New Yorker profile of Y Combinator venture capitalist Sam Altman, there are two tech billionaires secretly engaging scientists to work on breaking us out of the simulation. Musk is just one of the people in Silicon Valley to take a keen interest in the “simulation hypothesis”, which argues that what we experience as reality is actually a giant computer simulation created by a more sophisticated intelligence.
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