The notion that we live as characters in someone else’s video game is irresistible to many, even outside of science fiction bookshelves. Googling the term “simulation hypothesis” returns numerous results that debate whether the universe is a computer simulation—a concept that some scientists actually take seriously. Since a pivotal 2016 debate at the American Museum of Natural History, the idea has bounced from the scientific realm to the sphere of pop culture.
Unfortunately, this is not a scientific question; there is no objective way to test it. We will probably never know if it’s true and by focusing too much on this hypothesis, we are wasting time. We can, instead, use this idea to advance scientific knowledge.
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