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Could Our Universe Be a Fake? | Episode 110 | Closer To Truth

2022-03-02 Education
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Make a donation to Closer To Truth to help us continue exploring the world's deepest questions without the need for paywalls: https://shorturl.at/OnyRq Perhaps our entire universe is like a gigantic computer game, the creation of super-smart hackers existing somewhere else? Before you smirk and laugh, watch and think! Featuring interviews with David Brin, Nick Bostrom, Raymond Kurzweil, Marvin Minsky, and Martin Rees. Season 1, Episode 10 - #CloserToTruth Archive episode. First aired in 2008. ▶Register for free at CTT.com for subscriber-only exclusives: http://bit.ly/2GXmFsP Closer To Truth host Robert Lawrence Kuhn takes viewers on an intriguing global journey into cutting-edge labs, magnificent libraries, hidden gardens, and revered sanctuaries in order to discover state-of-the-art ideas and make them real and relevant. ▶Free access to Closer to Truth's library of 5,000 videos: http://bit.ly/376lkKN Closer to Truth presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.

Top Comments (10)

@DesertTalk 2022-03-03

I found Kurzweil interesting. I have similar thoughts regarding information. Martin Rees always has clarity in his explanations. A great sequence of interviews.

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@PetraKann 2022-03-03

The question “do we live in a simulation?” Is part of the simulation

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@thehistoryprof6750 2022-04-22

Love the no boundaries free thinking this series represents. Unique and in a class of its own. Thanks.

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@cynthiacole6140 2022-03-08

The concept of living in a simulation is as hard to accept and understand as NOT living in a simulation. For my brain anyway.

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@Cloninginvesting 2022-03-02

This is what Vedanta talks about all the time, everything is a simulation of Brahman.

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@ingenuity168 2022-03-03

Somehow, crazy as it seems, I tend to consider this possibility.

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@mcnallyaar 2022-08-12

"Before you smirk and laugh, watch and think." God bless this man.

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@daviddempsey577 2024-01-18

It could be fake but I live in the real one.😅

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@reaganwiles_art 2022-03-06

The only fake thing in the universe is the content of the ideas we have about the universe

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@GenXJay670 2022-03-03

The intro music reminds me of the movie "Scanners".

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