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Neil deGrasse Tyson on Simulation Theory 🤯

Cosmos Calculated•1:24

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Let's dive into simulation theory. It's hard to argue against it. We don't like it. Nobody likes realizing you're in a simulation, but we have ever computing power available to us and we create worlds on our computer for for our own amusement.

And let's take something simply like Mario. You look at some primitive version of the Mario game and there's Mario walking around and he picks up coins, I think, and he jumps. And you can ask the question, does Mario have free will?

Sure. Is Mario self-aware?

Right. When you look at the code that makes Mario, it's pretty clear that Mario doesn't. Mario just following lines of of instructions. All right.

Well, that's limited by our computing power. We can put more and more nuance into that character as computing power continues to grow. And imagine a future of quantum computing where it's thousands, millions, even billions of times more computing, call it phenomena, computing features. Yeah. Sophistications that can be put into the simulation.

And like can you insert free will? So you can put so many options. Yeah. That the question about whether your choice is free will doesn't even matter anymore because the the number of options you had available to you essentially mimic having free will. This is the matrix.