Monday, November 30, 2015

When Video Games Make Us Question Reality

So this isn't specifically Political philosophy, but it's definitely philosophy.  Stephen Colbert had the creator of this game on recently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqeN6hj4dZU

The idea that a universe can be created with the relative scale of our own universe is mind blowing.  The fact that everything is proceduraly generated (created on demand for the viewer) with only a relatively small set of rules to follow, is even more mind blowing.  Is it possible that our own universe was constructed in a similar fashion?

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