Steven Jordan – Suppose you spent your whole life as a character in the computer game The Sims. You would have no idea that the world around you wasn’t real and was really just a computer game.

But suppose one day one of your fellow Sims, a scientist, while trying to discover the physics of your world, stumbled upon elements of the source code of the very game you were in.

Here you are living a normal life, and then you find much to your astonishment that you are in fact living in a video game inside a computer. Continue reading →