TNS | Trendscope Sceince on Instagram: "The idea that our reality might be a simulation isn’t just sci-fi—it’s now part of serious philosophical and scientific debate. Based on Bayesian reasoning applied to Nick Bostrom’s simulation argument, Columbia astronomer David Kipping and others suggest the odds of us being “base reality” or lives inside a simulation are nearly equal. Some systems show signs of computational optimization or information constraints, which proponents interpret as possible