Are we living in a simulation?
Posted November 4, 2020 5:17 am.
This article is more than 5 years old.
In today’s Big Story podcast, no, the US election is not what spawned this question. New research in a field called ‘simulation theory’ pegs the odds that we’re just AI creations in somebody’s supercomputer at about 50-50. Really? How can we possibly determine this? What does simulation theory propose? What evidence do we have? Will we ever really find out? And could humanity one day create a simulation of our own?
GUEST: Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, author of Through Two Doors At Once
You can subscribe to The Big Story podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google and Spotify
You can also find it at thebigstorypodcast.ca.
Add CityNews Winnipeg as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.
