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

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

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

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

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

This idea is no different then the idea of an omnipotent god, it’s as old as humanity itself. Regardless, if this universe is somehow playing itself out on a computer in a separate reality, it changes nothing. More times then not a scientific simulation entails setting up the scenario then letting itself play out to see what and how it all happens. Unless it’s some child’s video game of course, in that case we’re all screwed.

OK, to answer the final question, I easily reject that consciousness, as we know it, can be simulated. The greatest knowledge is self-knowledge, because all other knowledge comes from that one perspective. It's fundamental. Therefore, it cannot even be seen objectively. Even if we think we've simulated something from which consciousness has emerged, we can never prove it without becoming that "consciousness," which is impossible. The only way to truly experience someone else's self-consciousness, is to BE at least part of it. This would support only the nondualist perspective, that we've all splintered off of the One consciousness, into which we may eventually remerge.

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

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

Thanks for connecting, Bob!

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