I read somewhere that in the near future (if not already) it will be possible to create artificial brains in a computer simulation. The author went on to presume that when this happens the amount of artificial brains will eventually outnumber the real ones. Once this happens the odds of you being an artificial brain will be more likely than you being real.
that goes not only for brains, but for a (our) whole (artificial/simulated)
world, and it's called the Simulation Argument.
http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.htmlThat's the singularity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhj6fDDnckE - D. Hofstadter makes good points regarding the possibility (and calls Kurzweil crazy when he is on his side
) - You can skip like the 1st 10 minutes of the video.