The genealogy of the simulation hypothesis

Until reading Reality+ I hadn’t realised how the simulation hypothesis is a moderation iteration of Putnam’s Brain in the Vat and the Evil Demon proposed by Descartes. It’s interesting to realise that a Cartesian problematic still has this amount of influence within analytic philosophy and wider culture.

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