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# Are We Living in a Simulation?
- URL: https://www.smoothpebbles.org/are-we-living-in-a-simulation/
- Published: 2022-01-26T00:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-04T06:28:19.000Z
- Author: Richard Flanders

This paper was published in the Oxford Philosophical Quarterly in 2003, four years after the Matrix movie. Well, ...

What if everyone had their faces buried in lying machines that impose a kind of artificial reality? What would happen?

[Are You Living in a Simulation?The original paper that introduced the simulation argument![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/fb/e7/fbe7045a-eafe-435c-a0b1-2a8711854853/content/images/icon/favicon-32x32-15cb1c6b-5726-4234-8d1c-dd5ecf237263.png)](https://simulation-argument.com/simulation/?ref=smoothpebbles.org)