Sci-Phi: Science Fiction as Philosophy. Episode 13, The Thirteenth Floor: Are We Simulated? [digital video].

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Title:

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Johnson, David Kyle, actor.

Series:

Great courses (Streaming video)

Publication Date:

2018

2019

Publication Information:

The Great Courses, 2018.

[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2019.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (streaming video file) (33 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

Abstract:

What is the likelihood that we are living in a simulated world right now? Some philosophers, using laws of subjective probability, would say it may actually be much higher than you might think. Examine the film The Thirteenth Floor and understand how creating a convincing simulated world could alter our conception of reality itself.

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Performers:

David Kyle Johnson

Technical Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Subject Term:

Science fiction.

Motion pictures.

Philosophy and religion.