Introduction to philosophy

SIMULATION BY NICK BOSTROM ARE WE LIVING IN SIMULATION If post humans developed and were interested in creating “ancestor simulations” Bostrom argues that the number of simulated conscious beings would be vastly greater than the number of stimulated conscious beings. True or False Bostrom argues that if nobody can be sure that they are the base level of reality then everyone would have to have to consider that something like traditional religious accounts of rewards or punishment in an afterlife would be a real possibility as they might be simulations and their simulators might reward or punish good or bad behavior. True or False Simulated conscious beings would have to have the same kinds of sensory experiences that stimulated conscious beings would have. TRUE OR FALSE If conscious beings in some sense construct their reality out of the sense data they receive and the way their minds perceive that data then simulated worlds that include conscious beings would be real in a non-trivial sense. True or False Bostrom argues that in to simulate conscious beings” post humans” would need to create a planet-sized computer for each conscious simulated individual. True or False The laws of nature in s simulation need not be the same as those in simulated reality TRUE OR FALSE Suppose both (1) we are not currently living in a simulation and (2) beings capable of running ancestor simulations with conscious. Als would make many such simulations. according to Bostrom if both were true then the probability of humanity surviving long enough to develop most of the technology that physical laws and material and energy constraints would allow is next to zero True or False Bostrom concludes that post humans will most likely develop and almost surely run enormous numbers of ancestor simulations and so we are almost certainly living in simulations True or false Bostrom defines*Post humans society* as societies that will develop after the extinction of humanity. True or false Bostrom assumes that its possible that conscious mental states could exit outside of biological organisms. True or false Requirements: true or false | .doc file ‘