Are you real? Is our world only an illusion? These used to be questions that only philosophers worried about, whereas scientists mainly got on with figuring out how the world is, and why. Surprisingly, some of the current best guesses about how the world is seem to leave the question hanging over science too. Accordingly, several physicists, astronomers and technologists are now happy to entertain the idea that we are all living inside a gigantic computer simulation, experiencing a virtual world that we mistakenly think is real.
How would we find out? And what should we do if this were true for our world?
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Today's work
e-pack §1.5
reading: @ exc 1-6
vocab: @ exc 7, 8
grammar: @ exc 9-11
continue reading your book + make notes for your paper
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Homework: Thursday 6 October
Advice:
Finish today's tasks: e-pack §1.5 @ exc 1-11
Continue reading your book voor TW1
Deadline paper book-film comparison 14/10 (= next week Friday)