Quantum & Physics
RATING:
4 - Academically Rigorous
Type:
Researcher

Nick Bostrom

Nick Bostrom is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford who published the Simulation Argument in the Philosophical Quarterly (2003), which presents a formal logical trilemma about the possibility of simulated realities that has accumulated 2,050+ citations. This is a philosophical argument rather than empirical physics or evidence—it demonstrates that dismissing simulated reality cannot be done casually, but this does not establish that we are simulated.

Key Works

Are You Living in a Computer Simulation? Philosophical Quarterly 53.211 (2003)