Reality as a Theoretical Concept

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Silicon Valley, tech culture, and most nerds the world over are familiar with the real world version of the question are we living in a Matrix? The paper thatÕs likely most frequently cited is Nick BostromÕs Are you living in a Computer Simulation? Whether or not everyone agrees about certain simulation ideas, everyone does seem to have an opinion about them.
Recently, the Internet heated up over Elon MuskÕs comments at a Vox event on hot tub musings of the simulation hypothesis. Even Bank of America published an analysis of the simulation hypothesis, and, according to Tad Friend in an October 10, 2016 article published in New Yorker, Òtwo tech billionaires have gone so far as to secretly engage scientists to work on breaking us out of the simulation.Ó
It is this notion of Òescape,Ó of breaking out of our simulation, that has inspired me to write this book.

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