the simulation of living by nick bostrom

Question

Bostrom concludes that posthumans will most likely develop and almost surely run enormous numbers of ancestor simulations, and so we are almost certainly living in simulations

True or false

Bostrom defines*Posthumans society* as societies that will develop after the extinction of humanity.

True or false

Bostrom assumes that it's possible that conscious mental states could exit outside of biological organisms.

True or false

Answer 1

The issue of consciousness and where conscience acts take place has faced philosophers and scientists for decades, if not centuries. John Searle and other biological naturalists limit human consciousness to the brain, which is itself part of natural processes.

Post-humanists like Nick Bostrom, who believes in technological maturity, repudiates such biological naturalism view as he thinks consciousness can be transformed from humans to technologically superior non-humans. In this regard, humans can be enhanced technologically to transform into post-humans. This is known as "trans-humanism." Bostrom goes even farther as to believe that our reality is computer-simulated in his Simulation Argument,

Bostrom Simulation Argument has brought skepticism, mainly from those who think that human consciousness cannot be transformed to machines, and believing in such possibility is simply fiction.