The Simulation Hypothesis: Are We Pixels in a Cosmic Video Game?

Is the world we know just an incredibly clever illusion?

The Curiosity Gap
4 min readApr 13, 2024

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Do you remember that scene in “The Matrix” when Neo is offered the red pill or the blue pill? It’s the moment reality starts to unravel. The red pill, a painful choice, would reveal a horrifying truth. That everything Neo knows, his entire world, is just an intricate computer simulation.

That scene always stuck with me. Not because it was cool sci-fi, but because even as a kid, I wondered…could something like that be possible?

Are we living inside a digital construct designed by some vastly intelligent being or civilization? Could we just be incredibly complex code, unaware of our artificial origins?

Welcome to the Simulation Hypothesis

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It might sound like wild speculation from pot-smoking college sophomores, but the simulation hypothesis isn’t just stoner philosophy. Respected scientists and philosophers have grappled with this mind-bending possibility for decades.

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