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Nick Bostrom The simulation argument: reply to Weatherson article I reply to some recent comments by Brian Weatherson on my ‘simulation argument’. I clarify some interpretational matters, and address issues relating to epistemological externalism, the difference from traditional brain‐in‐a‐vat arguments, and a challenge based on grue’‐like predicates.

The simulation argument: reply to Weatherson

Nick Bostrom

The philosophical quarterly, vol. 55, no. 218, 2005, pp. 90–97

Abstract

I reply to some recent comments by Brian Weatherson on my ‘simulation argument’. I clarify some interpretational matters, and address issues relating to epistemological externalism, the difference from traditional brain‐in‐a‐vat arguments, and a challenge based on grue’‐like predicates.

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