What If We’re Living in a Computer Simulation?

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What if your reality was nothing more than a complex computer simulation? And if you were just a program on someone else’s hard drive, how would you know?

Who would be controlling your every move? What kind of technology could make the simulation possible? And how could you break out of the matrix?

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