Are we living in a simulation?
Let me share some thoughts on the question of whether we are living in a simulation and how likely it is that simulated universes exist. I will present a point of view where such scenario is quite likely and is even a natural consequence of evolution as we know it. Let's start by observation of our civilization. Development of faster and more capable information processing tools (in our world they are called "computers" and this development is Moore's Law) inevitably leads to the phenomenon of emergence, when an artificially created system acquires properties that its author cannot predict and does not even understand. This is exactly what happened on a truly massive scale last year, in 2023, in the field of AI, when the first surprisingly good chat tools of general artificial intelligence emerged, unprecedented until then and even unexpected among experts. An advanced emergent system may then also have consciousness (but we are unable to confirm, disprove, or even de...