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What If We Are Living in a Simulation? - Guest: Nick Bostrom

What If We Are Living in a Simulation? - Guest: Nick Bostrom

FromWhat If, discussed.


What If We Are Living in a Simulation? - Guest: Nick Bostrom

FromWhat If, discussed.

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Length:
39 minutes
Released:
Mar 20, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

"What Is Real?" Many remember the now famous quote from Lawrence Fishburne's character "Morpheus" in the smash hit phenomenon "The Matrix" to the Keanu Reeves' character NEO when pondering whether they might be living in a computer simulation. But "simulation theory" is no longer just the stuff of science fiction. It has become all the rage of the world's top technology minds across Silicon Valley, including most famously Elon Musk who has proposed this as a very real...and likely possibility. But when Musk talks about this subject, he cites Swedish Philosopher, Oxford professor and the world's leading expert on simulation theory, Nick Bostrom. Nick joins "What IF Discussed" today as we all take the red pill and go for a mind blowing journey of pondering "what If we are living in a simulation."

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Released:
Mar 20, 2020
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Join hosts Richard Garner and Teddy Wilson of Mighty Trains with some of the world’s top thinkers in science, astronomy, technology, academia and futurism to ponder some of our most popular What If videos. Subscribe to this podcast and please rate & review us. Thanks for being part of the What If community as we embark on an epic exploration of possibilities. “What if?” These two simple words are the spark that has ignited countless theories, discoveries, and inventions. Most of what we know about ourselves and the universe is because someone, somewhere, at some time asked themselves “what if?” The What If Show, produced by Underknown, makes science accessible to everyone by using hypothetical questions as an entry point to explain science. Join us online:Web: https://whatifshow.com/podcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/WhatIfScienceShowFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/What.If.scienceInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/whatif.show