“We live in one generation from those gods who create these universes,” he said. Terrill meant that our reality was created by people from the future. And he is not alone in his opinion.
Mathematician, philosopher and physicist Nick Bostrom of the University of Oxford thinks the same way.
“While the world we see is ‘real’ in some sense, it is not located on a fundamental level of reality. We live in a computer program created by some kind of superintelligent race,” he says.
In his statements, Bostrom proceeds from the “Copernican principle”. The astronomer who popularized the idea that the Sun was the center of the solar system claimed that the Earth “is nothing special.”
Technically, we could be on any planet of the same size, orbiting any star of the same size, and the universe would look almost the same to us as it does now.
“If aliens or future humans created one virtual Earth with a supercomputer, there is no reason why they couldn’t make a million of them. So the numbers are against us. There can be billions of simulated worlds and at most one “real” one. The Copernican principle says that on this basis, we are more likely to find ourselves in one of the simulations than in reality,” says Bostrom.
Can we ever know if
the modeling hypothesis is correct? Bostrom believes that there is
always a chance that one day we will be able to find a deliberate or
accidental clue hidden in the simulation....<<<Read More>>>...
