BANK OF AMERICA: There's a 20%-50% chance we're inside the matrix and reality is just a simulation...

The thing is: We'd never know it anyway.

In a note to clients out Tuesday, Bank of America Merrill Lynch said there's a 20%-50% chance that we're living in the matrix — meaning that the world we experience as "real" is actually just a simulation.

The firm cites comments from Elon Musk, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Nick Bostrom's seminal paper on the issue as the basis for its 20%-50% view.

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This "if true, then true, otherwise false" construct means none of this philosophical struggle really matters anyway.

We're either in the matrix or we're not. And if we're not, we're unlikely to create the matrix because if the matrix were plausible it would've been created anyway. And we'd be in it.

The investment implications remain unclear. Full story...

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