From Siobhan Lyons, Sydney, Australia
Miriam Frankel notes that in order to potentially escape reality as a simulation, we could try attracting attention “beyond the program”, yet “whoever is running the simulation may not want us to escape”. But how can we be sure that the hypothetical creator of a simulated reality is even capable of helping us escape? If Siri became self-aware and wanted our help to escape an iPhone, how would we even begin to consider how to undertake such a task? What would it even mean to bring a virtual being into a physical world? If we are indeed in a simulation, the creator(s) may be at a similar loss as to how to bring us into their reality (13/20 December 2025, p 50).
