# Simulation Hypothesis **Domain:** Philosophy / Cosmology / Computation **Doc Type:** Concept Node **Maturity:** Evolving **Related:** [[Are You Living in a Computer Simulation]], [[Simulated World]], [[Layer-Relative Reality]], [[Physicalism]] --- ## Definition The **simulation hypothesis** proposes that experienced reality may be implemented by computation in a surrounding substrate. ## Corpus Context The corpus distinguishes the broad hypothesis from [[Nick Bostrom|Bostrom's]] specific probabilistic argument and from fictional recursive worlds such as [[Simulacron-3]] and [[The Thirteenth Floor (1999)]]. Implementation dependence does not settle the rights or reality of inhabitants. ## Key Insight **This node connects its historical or conceptual subject to the corpus without treating analogy as proof of direct influence.** ## See Also [[Are You Living in a Computer Simulation]], [[Simulated World]], [[Layer-Relative Reality]], [[Physicalism]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]]