Andrei Linde - Are We Living in a Simulation?

I often ponder this… then I stub my toe on a chair leg and suddenly realise simulation or not, that is some real pain.

The human brain wants to know everything. But it has dimensional restrictions. Maximum it can do is "think and interpret" But the truth is above the realm of it.....

Great interview with a brilliant physicist. Very honest and humble responses.

Maybe universes don’t exist parallel or adjacent to each other but within others like a Mandelbrot zoom

We wouldn't necessarily be living in a computer simulation, but that doesn't mean it isn't a simulation. We could just be an extension of an already existing reality, a projected version of beings that can transfer or alter their consciousness to far-flung places without endangering their original forms.

love the slow zoom

If we were in a simulation, then when we dream, we are in a simulation of a simulation. 😅

In the book "Contact"", the message is in the number pi

9:40 I don't think so. But they can come back and probe for the mystery of how they came to be. So if the universe was briefly open to configure our world to new space and it was something they wanted to observe as their miracle in a deep past... Then they can look on with as much wonder or curiosity as us but they cannot actually grasp or by default participate in how it happens during the unfolding moment of an unknown thing in their past.

Great Interview