Exploring the Simulation Hypothesis

You guys remember our boy from the Matrix?

Hello, Neil.

The Architect?

Who are you?

I am the Architect. I created the Matrix.

As it turns out, he's a real guy.

Joe Rogan interviewed him. His name is Thomas Campbell.

He says we live in a simulation.

We live in a virtual reality.

This physical reality is computed.

It's been computed by consciousness.

Bullshit.

Denial is the most predictable of all human responses.

Virtual reality has some very fundamental attributes.

One, there's a computer.

Two, there's a player.

Three, the computer computes some virtual space

that allows the players to see what's going on

and who's interacting with who.

The virtual reality actually doesn't exist.

It's just computer-generated eye candy for the players.

Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation

inherent to the programming of the Matrix.

And you are not a human.

That's an avatar.

You are a piece of consciousness.

You're a piece of consciousness that's a chip off the old block.

You're a subset.

You're a virtual machine inside a larger machine.

That's how a big mainframe can have a thousand users.

You've got a thousand virtual machines.

So everybody has their memory.

Everybody has their processing and so on.

You're getting a data stream.

The data stream defines your reality.

Consciousness has two different ways of processing information.

One is logically.

That's the intellectual side.

And the other is intuitively.

Now, in our culture, we work on that intellectual side, that logic side,

and we hone that, get good at it.

We go to school.

The intuitive side, eh, science tells you it doesn't even exist.

We don't work at it.

On the intuitive side, totally beyond logic.

There is no logic.

You just know.

The information comes to you.

It's intuitive.

The Hindus called that the Akashic Records.

So the purpose of this aware information system is to lower its entropy.

Consciousness is easy to define.

It's an awareness with a choice.

Nearly 99% of all test subjects accepted the program as long as they were given a choice.

What does this tell me?

You have to make some kind of sense out of it to help you find your purpose,

which is more order, lower entropy.

There's five or six things that have to be just perfectly tuned to each other

in this universe of ours for our universe to exist at all.

If any one of them wasn't exactly as it is, the whole thing would be unstable.

All of these various things are tuned to one another.

It's not only that each thing had to be very special,

but it had to be tuned to all the other ones.

They all had to work together.

So when the scientists realized that, they wrote this book,

and they called it the Anthropic Principle because they said,

it looks like this universe was designed just for us.