209: What would atheism look like in a simulated universe?

Are we living in a simulation? What does that have to do with God?

The boys drink and review another Pastryarchy offering from DuClaw, Irish Cream Dessert Stout, then wonder whether we’re living in a simulation, and whether it matters.

From Descartes’s skepticism to Nick Bostrom’s famous paper, P&C review some of the top arguments for why our world might not be what we think it is.

If simulated humans can have first-person experience, we are almost certainly in a simulation. Or are we? There are interesting arguments both ways.

Then the boys discuss how the simulation question relates to the God question. Does the possibility that we are in a simulated universe shed any light on God’s existence?

Is this a good heuristic for questions about God’s existence? That is, if you ask such and so question about God in the real world, how does that compare to an analogous question in a simulated world?