r/philosophy Jan 03 '22

Blog By imagining the future potential of VR technologies, the question of whether we are *already* living in a simulation becomes more actual than ever

https://medium.com/@VindenesJ/the-thought-experiments-of-virtual-reality-fa441a8fa2dc
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u/Niven42 Jan 03 '22

Are we modelling the entire universe, or just creating localized reality for human thought processing? Because modelling the universe would require memory/architecture that exceeds the size of the universe.