Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz!

Why lose yourself in the VR world when you're already in it?! Rizwan Virk, former game developer and MIT computer scientist, warns us in this cautionary tale about the statistical likelihood of our reality being a simulation. Many religions such as the Buddhist game of Samsara and visionaries like Stephen Hawking, Phillip K Dick and Elon Musk concur it is more likely than not this is one grand simulation. To support this point Rizwan takes us from the beginnings of 8 bit gaming to the downloadable open worlds of today. If our computing power persists in accordance with Murphys Law our supercomputers will render simulations with NPCs of a greater intellect than you and I! Has it already happened? Albert Einstein once said, “reality is merely an illusion albeit, a persistent one”.

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0:00:45 Introduction

0:03:45 About the Author

0:08:45 Ch1: Simulated Consciousness

0:22:10 Ch2: Pong to MMOPRGs

0:33:30 Ch3: VR to Mind-Interfaces

0:45:10 Ch4: AI & Downloadable Consciousness

0:53:00 Ch5: Gods of the Odds

0:59:00 Ch6: Conditional Rendering

1:06:15 Ch7: Parallel Universes

1:11:11 Ch8: Pixels and Quanta

1:15:45 Ch9: Unexplained Areas

1:19:10 Ch10: Religious Programming

1:27:15 Ch11: Skeptics & Believers

1:30:40 Ch12: The Great Simulation

1:37:15 Next Time & Goodbye!

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