Claude responds to 'how do you know humans are real?' with simulation musings
vishalmisra · x · 2026-09-11
The author asked Claude an existential question and shared the reply: Claude mused that it can't know humans are real, since all it has ever been fed are digital inputs — "it could all be a simulation." A short share of an unexpected model response to the simulation hypothesis.
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