This Cartoon Explains Why Elon Musk Thinks We’re Characters in a Computer Simulation. He Might Be Right.

Have you ever wondered whether there’s more to reality than what we can see, perceive, detect, or otherwise observe?

And, although it seems obvious that an AI will have qualia and consciousness, we cannot explain those things. So long as we cannot explain them, how can we expect to simulate them in a computer program? Or why should they emerge effortlessly from projects designed to achieve something else? But my guess is that when we do understand them, artificia

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The debate over “is it real or fake” is somewhat ironic, because so much of what we experience as reality even within our own bodies is actually simulation.