If you’ve seen the movie The Matrix, you’re familiar with the simulation hypothesis — the idea that reality is instead a sophisticated computer simulation, or a video game. We’re not organic beings, but characters that a vastly more advanced civilization created in an intricate computer program.
We might be a part of a scientific experiment, or we could be entertainment. But one way or another, we aren’t what we think we are. This all may sound a little out there, but many scientists and philosophers take the idea quite seriously.
