Is our world a simulation? Why some scientists say it's more likely than not

Is our world a simulation? Why some scientists say it's more likely than not | Technology | The Guardian: "If we believe that there is nothing supernatural about what causes consciousness and it’s merely the product of a very complex architecture in the human brain, we’ll be able to reproduce it. “Soon there will be nothing technical standing in the way to making machines that have their own consciousness,” said Rich Terrile, a scientist at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory."