Are we living in The Sims?
While scanning the Collide Magazine blog, I followed a link to an article about an Oxford professor who suggests there is a 20% chance that we’re living inside a computer simulation. In other words, human beings may be virtual characters made up of computer circuits and code inside the computer of some divine computer geek. Funny article!
29 Aug 2007 markus
Markus Watson
I think I saw that movie.
The first one was cool cause it was a bunch of escapist fun, the second and third one were a wierd and reminded me bad something can get when no one says “No, thats a bad idea.” Sometimes more is not more.
On the other hand if you want a theological look at said argument (of living inside a computer), the idea of mediated reality and mediation (of grace through sacraments, symbols, and ultimatly through the incarnation) and symbology are something that has facinated the church for centuries; and are the things doctral thesis are written on.
It also reminds of the movie “The Thirteenth Floor”. I think that’s a bit closer than “The Matrix” to what this professor was saying.
I think there’s a 35% chance that the professor had a rather old fillet with his fish and chips dinner, causing the ensuing insomnia to birth a 100% bunk suggestion.
:-)