
wasted on 9/28/05, 1:36 PM
"In addition to ancestor-simulations, one may also consider the possibility of more selective simulations that include only a small group of humans or a single individual. The rest of humanity would then be zombies or “shadow-people” – humans simulated only at a level sufficient for the fully simulated people not to notice anything suspicious. It is not clear how much cheaper shadow-people would be to simulate than real people. It is not even obvious that it is possible for an entity to behave indistinguishably from a real human and yet lack conscious experience."
Nick Bostrom, "Are you living in a computer simulation?"; Philosophical Quarterly (2003), Vol. 53, No. 211, pp. 243-255
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