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Are we living in a computer simulation? This book does two things. It lays out Nick Bostrom's argument properly and asks whether a world could be computed at all, then it looks at twenty-five years of films and TV that have played with the idea.
The Matrix and its 1999 cousins, the puzzle-box films that followed, Black Mirror's copies of people and the recent run of brainy prestige TV all get their turn. Philosophers are right that these are different scenarios, storytellers are right that they're one problem, and the book is happy to agree with both.
What you get: a ZIP file containing the book as a PDF (163 pages) and an EPUB, so you can read it on a computer, tablet or e-reader.
Are we living in a computer simulation? This book does two things. It lays out Nick Bostrom's argument properly and asks whether a world could be computed at all, then it looks at twenty-five years of films and TV that have played with the idea.
The Matrix and its 1999 cousins, the puzzle-box films that followed, Black Mirror's copies of people and the recent run of brainy prestige TV all get their turn. Philosophers are right that these are different scenarios, storytellers are right that they're one problem, and the book is happy to agree with both.
What you get: a ZIP file containing the book as a PDF (163 pages) and an EPUB, so you can read it on a computer, tablet or e-reader.