I wonder how many people saw a Science Fiction movie called '13th Floor'. This was a movie about a later generation of more advanced people inventing a computer program that creates a simulation of people (seems like the Matrix as well), and that the current generation of people living are actually all living in the computer simulation.
Well, here's a paper by a scientist that seeks to justify this theory, and postulate that this is indeed the reality (link to article):
This paper argues that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof); (3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation. It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor-simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation. A number of other consequences of this result are also discussed.
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