Constructed reality: are we living in a computer simulation? – tech podcast

Elon Musk says the likelihood that we are not actually all living in a simulated world is 'one in billions'. In this episode of Chips with Everything, philosopher and cognitive scientist Dr David Chalmers weighs in to explore those odds

What if our ability to develop technology becomes - or, in theory, already became - so advanced that we are living in a computer simulation that more technologically-capable humans have constructed for us? For tech mogul Elon Musk and a flurry of high-profile scientists and philosophers, that theory is very much plausible.