The Simulation Hypothesis Explained: Could Reality Actually Be A Simulation?

Is Reality Real? Everything you have ever experienced could, in principle, be happening inside a simulation. Your memories, your body, the Earth beneath you, the stars above it and perhaps the entire observable universe could be information generated by something existing at a deeper level of reality. There is no scientific evidence proving that this is true. Yet the simulation hypothesis has survived its transformation from science-fiction premise into a serious philosophical problem because one argument makes it surprisingly difficult to dismiss. If advanced civilisations could eventually create enormous numbers of conscious simulated people, why should we assume that we happen to be among the relatively small number of people living in the original reality?