Nick Bostrom proposed in the Philosophical Quarterly that the universe and everything in it might be a simulation, there has been intense public speculation and debate about the nature of reality.


Such public intellectuals as Tesla leader and prolific Twitter gadfly Elon Musk have opined about the statistical inevitability of our world is little more than cascading green code. Recent papers have built on the original hypothesis to further refine the statistical bounds of the hypothesis, arguing that the chance that we live in a simulation maybe 50-50.

In computational systems, of course, this intervention of processing speed into the world of the executed algorithm occurs at the most basic level. Even at the most basic level of simple operations such as addition or subtraction, the processing speed of the operation dictates a physical reality that is detached from the simulated reality of the operation itself.

Is our world a simulation?


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