About
Life in a Simulation is a home for one very old question asked in a very new way: what if the world we experience is not the bottom layer of reality?
Philosophers have circled this idea for millennia — from Plato's cave to Zhuangzi's butterfly dream to Descartes' deceiving demon. In 2003, philosopher Nick Bostrom gave it a modern form with his paper "Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?" Today, with video games that render whole worlds and AI systems that talk back, the question feels less like a riddle and more like a design document.
Here you'll find:
- Essays — clear, honest explorations of simulation theory, consciousness, and the philosophy of perception, written for curious people rather than specialists.
- Stories — short fiction that takes the "what if" seriously and follows it somewhere strange.
- Clips and posts — bite-size thought experiments on social media.
We try to keep a clean line between what is known, what is argued, and what is imagined. Speculation is labeled as speculation. Fiction is labeled as fiction. Whether the rest is real is, of course, the whole question.