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Apocalypse Now Does The Matrix: Anthropic adventures from doomsday to simulation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2009

Alasdair Richmond

Abstract

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Following on from Nick Bostrom's discussion of the Doomsday argument, Alasdair Richmond considers how anthropic reasoning can lead from Doomsday to some odd conclusions about computation and our place in reality.

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Type
Research Article
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Think , Volume 6 , Issue 17-18 , Spring 2008, pp. 29 - 40
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2008