![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8bba25b200515204e8c97ed40bc72738064000107f581627fb65d6e3c2098871/gen_84.png)
simulation theory
Chapter 2
At least one of the following propositions is true:
(1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage;
(2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof);
(3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation.
It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor‐simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation.
Nick Bostrom, Philosophical Quarterly (2003) Vol. 53
Chapter 2
At least one of the following propositions is true:
(1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage;
(2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof);
(3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation.
It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor‐simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation.
Nick Bostrom, Philosophical Quarterly (2003) Vol. 53
What are the implications for creativity?
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ffe4ec53d554731228b01e6da03b5549d0cdc8fac6fea537b267e825d79ee32c/279_1.png)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a8ce9f2d871caa135925eb900fcd1598c2a71ac7bbc7c09fae8e3d5352fa6d43/334_2.png)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f8b47c12795d32b0d5d4bc3727798d1e533bc00ef3056ea40d80392ec549d24e/340_1.png)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/521a84b8878facd2fd32e351f5e4b416404d5fbb62c1dbce5b80b1a636536a23/262_1.png)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ce68b86a0e7de62442943904fe1053ec94296128ab469769bbe2633151617ffa/280_1.png)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fc73fe10b05a06662b1ca548d7b2bdb1c6b0905098f4b0c5406f63a35979b6ec/342_1.png)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e57999aa0498b2e0e60546ffc00c085db69fb9f2be512f34c5623901db3b7801/250_4.png)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2cd51d014e32a9006fccfe4c0470bd745aa63a0e20c6a841b52fcfc1fb76115d/252_1.png)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a88869c272b97e43f6385c6e00fc840416e1e3583ed4f108aca08f590f7e3100/292_3.png)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/819f0f942e7a3ad250c13d62764fa6b9236f671b1d67d9cbfcac608869670755/327_1.png)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/36d5b342cd586c99f33a9d5f46eda35eca152d1dbbae3303481bc4e6d0fcced4/278_1.png)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bc5ee281243f6997c96f728e8829b92fe7703d8e985a194eabd6535639c7f5fc/346_1.png)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e310022e1711d8589d849db4dd2b4ad98f9eb4055ece9b34c46a06df684a03cc/206_1.png)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/78215b4cd5fcd875e1fde948c621b7e4cc14a31be03b570b81bf877aa0257559/291_1.png)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/431671d3e5ba35e7bdb434815faebf691c60919acb76c562570fbdd43619f85c/298_1.png)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/26085fcbd6cae111f172346d51de5858eb18f69f7ddf1e6a8d5335431942fc9f/298_3.png)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e7081308caa03ea2c25bf238f03ba6ac03c1d354e1395164db785368675b7306/319_2.png)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/593bc385d9850720426b461251ddc125945b3886d460095aee7b7a3458213194/218_1.png)
2019 Ivo Vigan - Brooklyn, NY ivo.vigan@gmail.com