Simulate Your True Self

Think 22 (64):35-38 (2023)
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That the world we seem to experience around us might be nothing but a simulation – perhaps generated by a demon or super-computer – is a perennial theme in science fiction movies. Muriel Leuenberger explores a recent example.

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Muriel Leuenberger
University of Zürich

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