What If We’re Living In A Simulation? – Simulation Theory
With guest Max Selim, we discuss the merits of whether we’re living a lie – a.k.a. – simulation theory. Is all this just zeroes and ones? Is everything we see simulated by a computer? And if so, how many billions of these are there? Which one are we in? IS THIS REAL LIFE? Ryan is afraid and confused, Spencer is pumped, and Max steers the simulation theory ship.
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Philip K. Dick on Simulation Theory:
“I know of no one who has ever made this claim before, but I’d rather suspect that my experience is not unique. What perhaps is unique is the fact that I’m willing to talk about it. We are living in a computer programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in our reality occurs. We would have the overwhelming impression that we were reliving the present, déjà vu. Perhaps in precisely the same way, hearing the same words, saying the same words.
I submit that these impressions are valid and significant, and I will even say this, such an impression is a clue that at some past time point, a variable was changed, reprogrammed as it were and that because of this, an alternative world branched off.”
Elon Musk on Simulation Theory:
“If you’re traveling into the future, and say, how good will video games be in 100, 200, or 1,000 years from now, if there’s continued improvement, and you’re in a full-body haptic suit with a surround vision. It becomes, beyond a certain resolution, indistinguishable from reality.
There will likely to be millions, maybe billions, of such simulations. Then what are the odds that we’re actually in base reality? Isn’t it one in billions?
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