April 13, 2022

Red Pill This!: The Simulation Proposal

52 minutes

EPSIODE 56 | Red Pill This!: The Simulation Proposal

Mainly inspired by a 1999 movie, many people suspect we may be living in a computer simulation of some sort. If we are, how can we tell? Maybe by looking at some ideas from physics, which has some truly unusual ideas as to the nature of things. The universe might be made of tiny vibrating strings, or physicalized information. It might be a hologram, or a big brain, or an artifact of statistics. All these ideas seem to point to an underlying code of some kind. Or maybe everything we think we know was just created last Thursday.

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SECTIONS

02:10 - I Can Only Show You the Door - The Matrix, PKD, red pills, metaphor, human batteries

10:15 - The Simulation Scenario (Not Hypothesis, Not Theory) - Nick Bostrom, Kurtzweil, deGrasse Tyson, Musk, virtual contingency plans, OpenAI, NVIDIA's E2 & the Omniverse

19:09 - Blinded with Science - The Holographic Principle, the UFT (and GUT & TOE), string theory

22:37 - Vepson, Landauer's Principle, dark matter & energy, MACHOs & WIMPs, it from bit

25:47 - Biocentrism, quantum weirdness

27:11 - Braaaiins! - Hong Qin's algorithm & discrete field theory, universe as brain or neural network; Quantum Gravity Research, self-simulation, the pan-consciousness

33:44 - The Department of Redundancy Department - Reality as statistical average, glitches in the matrix, coincidence & deja vu

39:48 - Dear God, Sorry to Disturb You But... - Lack of proof, Last Thursdayism, the Omphalos Hypothesis, Christian reactions, the Matrix Defense, simulation as religion, the Global Architect Institute

48:09 - The Clock is TikToking - Gen Z rediscovers the idea, Rivka Weinberg & ultimate meaning, the road ahead

Music by Fanette Ronjat

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More Info:

Why the Matrix Matters to Trans Fans on NPR

The Matrix Spawned the Simulation Theory

'Matrix'-style bracelets turn humans into batteries

Summary of Bostrom's 2003 paper

The Simulation Argument

Is Our Universe a Fake?

Whoa, Dude, Are We Inside a Computer Right Now?

Are we living in a computer simulation? I don’t know. Probably.

Do we live in a simulation? on Space.com

Living in the Matrix

Simulation interview series on Closer to Truth

What Are the Odds We Are Living in a Computer Simulation? in the New Yorker

Neil deGrasse Tyson says it’s ‘very likely’ the universe is a simulation

50% Chance We're Living in a Simulation in Popular Mechanics

Do We Live in a Simulation? Chances Are about 50–50 in Scientific American

Elon Musk Thinks There's A "One In Billions" Chance We Don't Live In A Computer Simulation

Elon Musk And Friends Are Spending Millions To Break Out Of The Matrix

On Testing the Simulation Theory paper

THE MEN WHO ARE CONVINCED WE’RE ALL LIVING IN A SIMULATION

Our universe is one massive HOLOGRAM and our entire existence is an ILLUSION, scientists claim

Quantum Paradox Suggests the Fabric of Our Reality Is Inconstant

If the universe is a giant computer simulation, here's how many bits would be required to run it

Dark Matter on CERN

The Basis of the Universe May not Be Energy or Matter but Information

There is no dark matter. Instead, information has mass, physicist says

Roger Penrose on Why Consciousness Does Not Compute

The universe works like a huge human brain, discover scientists

The entire universe is a neural network

It from Bit - What did John Archibald Wheeler get right and wrong?

Physicist creates AI algorithm that may prove reality is a simulation

New hypothesis argues the universe simulates itself into existence

Is human consciousness creating reality?

The Biocentric Universe Theory: Life Creates Time, Space, and the Cosmos Itself

The Universe as a Statistical Approximation

John Bartlett on Why We Do Not Live in a Simulated Universe

The simulation argument: Does it reflect a frustration in physics?

The Church of Last Thursday

Friend, Have You Heard the Good News About the Simulation Hypothesis?

He Thought He Was Living in ‘The Matrix’—and Killed His Parents

Bad religion, bad media combine in new doc "A Glitch in the Matrix"

Simulation Theory: How is ‘Religion’ Part of It?

Religion and the Simulation Hypothesis: Is God an AI (Part I)?

The simulation hypothesis and the ultimate religion

The Global Architect Institute

Simulation Creationism

Heidi Wong TikTok video

Ultimate Meaning: We Don’t Have It, We Can’t Get It, and We Should Be Very, Very Sad

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