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Contents 1 Articles 2 Blogs 3 News 4 Podcasts

[edit] Articles

• The Simulation Argument - Nick Bostrom
• Historical Simulations - Motivational, Ethical and Legal Issues - Peter S. Jenkins
• The Holographic Universe - Michael Talbot
• Against the argument that we are living in a simulation - Henry R. Sturman
• Are we real? - Khlo
• How to live in a simulation - Robin Hanson
• Why We Probably Aren't Living Inside a Simulation - Brad DeLong
• The Big Brother Universe - Andrew Thomas
• God is the Machine - Kevin Kelly (Wired Magazine)
• Real Life, The Full Review - Greg Kasavin (Gamespot)
• How to tell if you live in a simulation - Anthony Campbell
• Modeling Terrorists - Harry Goldstein
• On science, politics, and simulations - Pedram Khalili Amiri
• Connecting your Brain to the Game - Kate Green
• What we still don't know - Martin Rees (Channel 4 programme outline)
• The Doomsday Simulation Argument - Istvan Aranyosi

Combines the idea of the Simulation Argument with the Doomsday Argument.

• Our Lives, Controlled from Some Guy's Couch - John Tierney (NY Times)
• Sentient world: war games on the grandest scale - Mark Baard (The Register)
• Scientists: Artificial life likely in 3 to 10 years - Staff Writer (CNN)
• Living in a Simulated Universe - John D. Barrow
• Computing the Cosmos - Hellemans & Mukerjee

This article describes an ambitious project which aims to simulate on a supercomputer the evolution of the entire universe from just after the Big Bang until the present. Requires user rights to IEEE material

• On Not Simulating a Universe - Martin Kochanski
• Hierarchical Intelligent Simulation - Niculiu & Cotonofa
• Simulation of the Universe - Neil J. Boucher
• The Hedonistic Imperative: Chapter 4 - David Pearce

This section looks at the simulation argument in posthuman terms.

• Virtuality and the discovery of Reality - Kim H. Veltman
• Reality in the melting Pot - Paul Davies
• The Physical World as a Virtual Reality - Brian Whitworth
• A Very Special Shutdown Notice - Matthew Ford

This is a thought-provoking and humorous take on how we might find out that we live in such a simulation

• Our World May Be A Giant Hologram - Marcus Chown

[edit] Blogs

• Simulism, the universe as a quantum computer and Second Life (Part I) - Max Froumentin
• Simulism, the universe as a quantum computer and Second Life (Part II) - Max Froumentin
• The Speed of Light Exceeded - Chuck Missler
• Are we living in a computer simulation? - Diwaker Gupta
• Are we living in a simulation? - Joel Achenbach
• What Is Reality? - Andrew Thomas
• Are you Living in a Computer Simulation? - Jo-Anne Green
• Are we living in a computer simulation? - 'Truepath'
• Many-worlds Immortality and the Simulation Argument - Miron
• Simulism in the NYT - M.C. DeMarco
• Simulated Universe Theory - wrong or meaningless? - Jorgen Modin
• None dare call it reason - John Walker
• Are We Living in a simulated universe?
• Deterministic Chaos and the Simulated Universe - Kaedrin Weblog
• A Simulated World - Vinicio Coletti
• The Simulated Universe - Brent Silby
• Multiverse Theory' Holds That the Universe is a Virtual Reality Matrix
• Review of Bostrom's Simulation Argument - Brian Eggleston
• Computable Universes and the Theory of Everything - Jurgen Schmidhuber
• Computer Generated Universe Theory - Chris Worfolk
• Dust Theory for Beginners - Nigel Steele
• The Speculist - Stephen Gordon
• Simulated Universes and the Nature of Consciousness - Nova Spivak
• How to Simulate the Universe - John Tierney
• Aladdin's Lamp -John Tierney
• Mad Max Tegmark's Brave New Universe - Gary S. Bekkum
• Be Warned; this could be the Matrix - Paul Davies
• The Dark Side of The Simulation Argument - George P. Dvorsky
• The Functional Properties of Simulated Worlds
• Simulation Independence - Calum Grant
• Paranoid Thought Experiment #3058: is God a computer? - Tony LaRocca
• The VR Hypothesis - Justin Mullins
• I don't think I'm a real person - Dave Naylor
• On the notion of Afterlife (and the simulism factor) - A. AlNomany

[edit] News

• Virtual Virus is First Simulation of an Entire Life Form - Livescience.com (march 2006)
• Virtual Reality Prepares Soldiers for Real War - Washington Post (february 2006)
• Simulating Evolution in a Computer Game - Spiegel.de (january 2007)

[edit] Podcasts

• Blue Pill - grc.com (August 2006)