MIT Scientist: “Aliens Are Simulating Our Reality”

So basically the rule of thumb in video games for 3D MMO RPGs is render only that which can be observed by the Avatar there what is real how do you define real Humanity wasn't meant to live like this it is now p and conventional to say that we live in a simulation Elon Musk says that we're most likely in a simulation we live in a computer simulation it's like The Truman Show nothing matters go crazy it's all just a Video game I played video games before so you know I know it I'm down a little

bit these sentiments are mostly just a product of postmodern nihilism the absurdity of Modern Life yeah it's the guy feel like a cowgirl and me ready it huh one in which society feels purposeless docile and domesticated in which we're hypnotized by material gain stupid status games and mere survival look at that subtle off white coloring oh my God It even has a watermark we know it's all kind of fake and ephemeral but we continue playing the game for some reason Frozen by our desires and Paralyzed by faithlessness in higher worlds that have been relegated to

mythology that few people actually believe are real post pandemic we are forking from this zombie path everything is speeding up and the future is fracturing at an accelerated Pace artificial intelligence War in Gaza Ukraine war the post pandemic timeline is a forcing function for us to reconcile with the ugliest parts of ourselves them our yian shadows every one of you are terrorists I don't care what you say perhaps we our player is saying okay now I need to make some changes or now I need to take control and make sure it doesn't go do this

thing the simulation is breaking we are glimpsing the light Beyond Plato's Cave And that light can either eviscerate us or save us but where did we get this idea of the simulation in the first place we are living in a computer programmed reality and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed well there were some early and very important proponents like sci-fi authors Philip K dick and William Gibson but the theory wasn't given its coveted academic stamp of approval until Oxford Philosopher Nick Bostrom wrote his 2012 book super intelligence the

hypothesis that we are literally living in a computer simulation we used to say in artificial intelligence that the Turing test was the Holy Grail that developing an AI indistinguishable from another human being would be near impossible to achieve and then at least in the realm of text we've done just that with open ai's chat GPT I think like just this is The The Arc of human technological history as we build bigger and more complex systems so why shouldn't we expect the same thing to occur with virtual reality the creation of a virtual world as High

Fidelity as ours one that's even totally indistinguishable from it this was bostrom's essential thesis you know I know this St doesn't exist after 9 years you know what I realize ignorance is bliss so in a future War torn re Source Constrained World why wouldn't everyone begin opting into these brain machine virtual simulations wouldn't infinite resources at your fingertips be more pleasurable than walking around microchipped in a shanty town without access to clean water but maybe that future isn't inevitable what about a resource abundant world that's always possible too well that resource abundance would be achieved

through technology that is probably dual use in Other words Tech that can either save Humanity or destroy it this technology has the chance to either bring us together or completely rip us apart once and for all take nuclear fusion it can destroy Humanity with a hydrogen bond or theoretically save it with controlled free energy and the costs barriers to entry and civil engineering required to build all of these Technologies are exponentially dropping we're not at the Point where a kid in his bedroom can blow up the world just yet but we might be uncomfortably closed

soon who should we nuke first how about Las Vegas Las Vegas [Music] great so in a resource abundant world that anyone can destroy at the drop of a hat if you were an Elite member of that world or a guardian maybe you would send the average citizenry through a simulation before they can enter base Reality a test to ensure they adhere to the right higher virtues before giving them access to such possibly destructive technology ology a sort of global scale initiation process if you will maybe we're all just vying for access to get to the

next level a world of immortality resource abundance and infinite love how do you know you don't have an incredibly High Fidelity biological skin suit headset on right now in the form of your body our senses are a filter to stop our Brains from being overwhelmed with reality and so what we see is a limited aspect of everything around us but that is a different model of reality than people currently have today but it's one I'm sympathetic to which is that the sensory organs are not necessarily productive they're reductive on a default state of almost greater

omniscience but an inability to make sense of right things even Elon Musk America's Chief Industrialist of SpaceX Tesla and X Fame thinks that we're living in a simulation there's a one in billion chance that this is based reality oh okay ean's and Nick bostrom's arguments are so easy to comprehend in common sense and so Harden to argue with that even a totally close-minded midwit like Neil degrass Tyson accepts that we are 50% likely to be living in a simulation it's hard to argue against the possibility that all of us are not just the creation of

some Kid in a parents basement programming up a world for their own entertainment in walks Riz an MIT and Stanford educated computer scientist with a very successful career as a video game entrepreneur we are most likely inside some kind of a computer simulation Burke takes bostrom's work on the simulation Theory to the next level he points to all sorts of phenomenon in physics from the finely tuned physical constants to Quantum indeterminacy to Show that reality is likely based on information Theory or Quantum Code that humans are rendering in real time the more I looked into

the idea of the physical Universe the more I realized that many physicists are telling us that the physical world doesn't really exist right and start with John Wheeler he said that physics went through three phases in his life in the first phase they thought everything was a particle meaning they thought it was like a solid Thing then when quantum mechanics came along they thought everything was a field and the conclusion he came to finally was the more he looked into what an actual particle is the only thing he could find was that it was an

answer to a series of yes no questions M but he also points to Christian Islamic vidic and even classical Western texts like Plato that all Point towards a Proto architecture behind religion one that depicts Life as a sort of painful Yet joyous karmic game in which we must learn repeated lessons in the Sufi Trad I you they talk about the 70,000 veils these veils are put between you and Ultimate Reality between you and God and you're trying to remember who you were and who God is ver also discusses time timelines and time Loops as the

core variables in the simulation probability really only exists if you do something multiple times so how is it that we can talk About a probability wave and collapsing if it's only going to happen one time the only way that is real probability is if it was run multiple times much of this points to a simulation theory that in my mind is far more life affirming empowering and meaningful for the average individual than the typical nistic framing that you were just a cognic computational machine and that your life has no meaning so without further Ado please

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the axes is whether it's we're all NPCs non-player Characters or we're all avatars of players uh which I call the RPG version or the role playing game version in this version a more expanded more fundamental and more primordial soul is voluntarily porting itself into low-level reality it goes back to Plato you know maybe the myth of air or something he's sort of Zapped into a body you know you experience anamnesis where you forget your sort of formal former primordial Self but there is that self and that self has real agency in this in this world

so I think that's more life affirming I do too and that's why I tend to lean more towards the RPG version but it also you know one of the reasons why we can't remember is perhaps that's the way the game was set up why because you have been down there Neo you know that road you know exactly where it ends physics itself which involves very finely tuned physical constants feels Like it was perfectly constructed to create the conditions of our solar system and the Earth as the great Steven Hawking even admitted the laws of science

as we know them at present contain many fundamental numbers like the size of the electric charge of the electron and the ratio of the masses of the proton and the [Music] electron the remarkable fact is that the values of these numbers seem to have Been very finely adjusted to make possible the development of Life take water one of the most basic resources for intelligent life on Earth it's comprised of hydrogen and oxygen hydrogen and oxygen happen to bond in a way that forms a perfect crystal lattice structure when frozen normally solids are more dense than

liquids and so they sink below them but in the case of water these perfect hexagonal Crystal structures space H2O molecules out more In ice than in water making it less dense that's why you see water floating above the surface if that weren't the case Antarctica might sink and the Earth would flood many times over but that's just the tip of the iceberg no pun intended if planks constant or the strong nuclear force were slightly different it would drastically change the formation and stability of basic elements like hydrogen carbon and oxygen in the first place elements

that as we Just discussed in the case of water are essential for organic life if the gravitational constant were different the Earth might not be able to retain its own atmosphere and the lifespan of the sun can be drastically shorter than it is now this wouldn't even allow for enough time for life to form in the first place and what about the Earth's Van Allen belt it protects us from cosmic radiation that would wipe life off the planet the Van Allen belt is Created by Earth's magnetic field and if you think the Earth's magnetic field

isn't finally tuned to support life try growing organic life in a faraday chamber removing the Earth's natural electromagnetic frequencies grow a frog embryo in a faraday chamber and it comes out pretty messed up this is why astronauts need to bring schum resonance machines up with them to space to mimic the Earth's magnetic field otherwise their bodies will stop functioning Properly and the magnet IC field of the earth blocks just enough solar radiation to ensure humans don't get eviscerated by over radiation but lets in just enough to create some of the genetic mutations necessary for natural

selection and evolution to occur the conventional Dogma in Academia is that these are all just happy accidents that eventually occur with enough time solar systems and planets across eons but thinkers like RZ ver Think these perfectly fine to conditions point to intelligent creation or simulation in fact all of the possible values of these constants have been run through uh within a timeline of the Multiverse I call it the simulated Multiverse so they've been simulated and we happen to be in the one that has the constants that are uh well fine-tuned for us to be able

to live in it but there are other universes out there where we would not be able to live [Music] we have more evidence for the simulation in information Theory which is the basis for the simulation in computers and video games that we code up every day you would use repeating consistent structures to build programs think about it if there are a few lines of code that help the people at Activision build Tony Hawk's Pro Skater that they can just reuse for Call of Duty they'll just copy and paste that code well in nature we See

all sorts of repeating pattern patterns that seem to represent the building blocks of organic plant and animal life the Fibonacci sequence is a sequence of numbers in which each new term is the sum of the previous two terms 1 2 3 5 8 Etc as the sequence progresses the ratio between consecutive numbers in a Fibonacci Sequence approaches the Golden Ratio or roughly 1.618 the dimensions of DNA follow Fibonacci numbers the arrangement of leaves on plant stems often follow Fibonacci numbers to maximize sunlight exposure the even trippier then is that these biological patterns often look like

fractals of larger cosmological patterns in our solar system the arms of spiral galaxies often form logarithmic spirals displaying the golden ratio this includes by the way our Milky Way galaxy it's sort of like an infinite Russian nesting golf system But how exactly does computer science and information Theory work well the basis of information Theory involves bits or ones and zeros or on and off switches or yeses and NOS which become abstracted into higher level symbolic language and eventually into icons and images that we see on the graphical interfaces we call computers so where might we

find ones and zeros in nature plenty of particles have matter antimatter pairs take an Electron electrons themselves are perfectly interoperable they all have the exact same atomic mass and properties and they all have an antimatter inverse called the positron the antimatter or the zeros are not really detectable maybe these binary switches are being actively rendered by an observer and what about human beings themselves well we all have four nucleotides that make up DNA adenine Guanine thyine and cytosine or a GTC for sure but we call them base pairs because a always bonds with t and

c always bonds with G so two base pairs sounds like bits or ones and zeros to [Music] me I don't is it really so hard to [Music] believe but there is also this issue of the fact that we all think we're in the same reality right and are are we in the Same reality or not is an interesting question and it's like a consensus collapsing function yeah it's like a consensus collapsing function you know we could get into a whole discussion if we had time about the Mandela fact mhm a phenomenon in which a large

number of people remember events that don't seem to match reality it's called this because a big group of people remember Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 80s even going Into detail about his wife walking in a funeral procession beside his casket for 2 hours that day an event that never happened Mandela went on to be released from prison he United South Africa and he died in 2013 other people swear that in Star wars's Empire Strikes Back Darth Vader says Luke I am your father what he actually says is no I am the father a

little less iconic Sex In The City is Sex and the City the Flyn Stones is Actually spelled Flint Stones there are countless examples one of the interesting aspects of the Mandela fact that I found was when scripture changes because you know people take their scripture pretty seriously right uh I mean it's one thing to have you one letter change somewhere which is a big deal like in the case of the Burnstein Bears versus the Burnstein Bears or one word in the case of The Empire Strikes Back back you know Luke I Am your father but

people remember their scripture almost word for word and so there are all these Bible changes like like Isaiah and The Lion and the lamb and that that lion is not there anymore and in Islam they memorize the Quran word for word I mean that before you become a priest there's a designation called ha which is somebody who literally can go through the entire Quran word for it and I always thought That was kind of stupid like why do we need to memorize where for word we have the books now we have computers we can do

a search it doesn't seem to make sense and I looked around to see if anybody had claimed any of the words it changed and there was this one Sufi Imam who claimed that the reason why even after the introduction of writing and writing down the Quran that it's still memorized word for word is that there are these entities out there who don't Live in normal space and time the way we do they can go back and change physical objects but they're not allowed to change our memory and those beings are called Jin the Jin 10,000

years will give you such a crick in the neck now would probably be a good time to pay homage to the great Claude Shaman the architect of information Theory which led to Modern computation principles and the great physicist John archabald Wheeler one of The first proponents of information as the basis of physics it was wheeler who coined the phrase it from bit and the more recent and probably more accurate version it from Cubit to suggest that physical reality arises from a base substrate of information I know he's a proponent of kind of it from bit

but I I'm more familiar with you know the shinger you know just a probability function so how do you get from probability function to Like a binary yes no question sort of thing right well okay so you might have to do a little bit of bridging there because if you think think of the probability wave yeah what it's actually saying is that particles are in superposition uh it's like a wave or an interference pattern um now that's just weird right so why would the universe be in states of superposition until there's a measurement or an

observation you know there's no good reason for that as far As we can tell uh it's just one of these mysteries of Nature and so for me it it very much reminded me uh quantum physics very much reminded me of how we build video games today and Virtual Worlds and so if it becomes uh what we sometimes call Lazy evaluation in computer science which is you don't evaluate anything until you need to uh and don't render it unless you need to you render only those pieces you need to that could very much provide an interesting

explanation for The why of this Quantum indeterminacy that kind of reminds me of like if you have Heisenberg's uncertainty principle you you know the measure the position momentum gets fuzzier and sort of Vice Versa it's almost like a computational caching function or something like only so much can be stored in local memory and what about how light travels would that follow information Theory principles Vermont's principle of least time states that light follows the Path that takes the least time to travel from one point to another if the universe were a simulation then the rendering of

Light which is the foundation of everything we see seems like it is governed by algorithms that seek the most efficient outcomes in computers you have a client side and a server side a front-end interface and a backend database well that actually might be how Consciousness works we may be nodes in a larger Network when one person learns A New Concept or achieves a breakthrough they might make it incrementally easier for others to reach these new heights it's like rert sheld Drakes you know morphic resonance where if uh 100 people do a crossword puzzle and you

do a crossword puzzle tomorrow you're a little more likely to do it accurately where you're pushing information to the server as well it's almost as if all scientific and material world accomplishments get Uploaded to a central repository once that upload occurs a new node downloading that information becomes that much easier also if you make a new chemical comp compound for the first time and you crystallize it that Crystal form won't have existed before cuz it's a new compound and the more often you crystallize it the easier it should get for crystals of that kind to

form that's amazing this might also explain the banister effect the idea that when a Significant barrier is broken in athletics it can lead to a mental shift that opens the floodgates for others to achieve the same New Heights the banister effect is named after British athlete Roger banister who broke the 4minute mile record in 1954 at Oxford within just 2 and 1/2 years 10 other Runners had all broken the 4-minute mile I was barely aware of the fact that Chris chataway was now going into the lead if humans are the client side and There is

a server side storing information for us how would that client server communication take place well if you recall from my video the man who built UFOs for the CIA I interview a Navy whistleblower who discusses an extended version of electrodynamics that involves a far more faithful adherence to James clerk Maxwell's 21 original equations instead of Oliver heavyside simplification into four Vector calculus equations when you Introduce the scalar field you now have the possibility of at least three completely new kinds of waves so some of these waves might involve faster than light Communications and one of

those exotic New Wave types is called Helio coidal so maybe that's how biological life gets downloads from the central server and what about humans every human body has an electromagnetic field and if this extended version of electrodynamics is real maybe that's how we call Information from the larger field or server this fully comports with the phenomenology of thought way more than saying that thoughts are just locally produced and it might even explain some very interesting ancient and biblical depictions of holy figures the symbol for the crow is called Corona radiata it's a nerve endings inside

the brain and we were thought of in neurology we cannot control this we cannot activate that and then I came and I showed how to Enlighten activate the corona rabata white Mass inside the brain I know I'm a king man the real king and you and all all of us we should be Kings when I first heard about you it was actually from uh jacqu Valle he was like there's a guy named RZ ver and he has this crazy Theory and he sort you know took me through it and he was like it's impossible to

disprove like it's I think it's right I read his first book And I wasn't um completely convinced yeah I read his second book and then I and then I he asked me to write the forward for the French version which I did because by then I was hooked and I couldn't find a flaw in what he was saying wow okay what is the simulated Multiverse what what is the core Loop engine why run many you know kind of simulation functions yeah so you know let's start with the m verse interpretation of quantum mechanics Which was

put forth by Hugh Everett who was a student of of John Wheeler's uh at Princeton and he basically came up with a way to explain one of the problems with the Copenhagen interpretation and so one of the problems was you have this this probability wave and you have it collapsing to one possibility but nobody understood how that would actually happen there's no math that brings you from this to this directly was like magic mhm well it's a scher's equation I Guess but it's like it's like square of the amplitude of the yeah that's how you

get the probability but nobody really understands how do you go from that down to just one to the one yeah absolutely so the collapse particular I State Nobody Knows Why yeah right and what happens to the other possibilities at that point right well so you know as I began to think about it if you look at the original definition of probability it was uh one of these uh French Mathematicians I'm forgetting which one but but somebody asked him about rolling dice he basically said if you take a die a single dice it has six possible

Futures right so he said if you roll this dice you know you're going to get one of these possible Futures and so probability really only exists if you do something multiple times right otherwise what does it mean there's no meaning to probability right right how would you know if you hadn't Flipped the coin so many times right right and the idea is that over time the more you do the more it's likely to get into great point and so so how is it that we can talk about the probability wave and collapsing if it's only

going to happen one time the only way that is real probability is if it was run multiple times and ever said well if you take these different possibilities in the amplitudes uh what you have is a wave that is basically a Supet a superp position of all these waves and he said you can separate one of the waves but then you're still left with all the other subsets of that that wave and turns out you can separate all of them so into different physical universes and so you know he put out this idea that when

that collapse happens what's really happening is we are in one of those universes and the other universes exist out there the problem with that approach according to Many physicists is it's not parsimonious right that's a word they like to use because it's basically creating a new universe like all the time right we're talking about at the quantum decision state right so much smaller than a second we've been creating new universes and so that idea seems absurd to some people that we we have to create these entire physical universes um and I like to say well

there's really nothing in nature no Big object that can clone itself so quickly unless there's one scenario which I could conceive it happening and that is that the universe is actually information computation yeah and comput so you don't actually have to clone the whole physical Universe you just have to clone the information in the universe it seems like if you go back to the actual Copenhagen school a lot of them were flirting with the idea that the mind was part of the collapsing of The wave function so like you can even you know read like

Heisenberg and he sort of Muses about this you know it all has to go through the mind and then you had Max plun earlier and Von noyman vigner that was sort of part of their interpretation yeah and then later on it turned into this you know if you talk to most Quantum You Know Field theorists now they would say that uh you know it's just one particle sort of collide they collapse into an nigen State and that's Independent of you know any sort of human Observer and I do think I do find it interesting that

a lot of the you know all the early proponents the people that actually made the equations that govern you know uh quantum mechanics and then Quantum field Theory uh were proponents of of this and then it kind of turned into this you know shut up and calculate thing right and and I think that is something we shouldn't try to lose I I think sometimes we try to have Too much certainty because we think the other thing is absurd right uh I mean wheeler was one of the ones who who talked about this idea that in

quantum physics there is no subject object separation you can't have like the scientists like to think there's a there's a window here and I'm watching the observation over there and what I'm doing here doesn't affect that right that's kind of the basis of scientific experimentation I you can't have science If you can't have that but wheeler was one of the proponents who said there is no such thing that basically we are in a participatory universe so if we are observing this experiment we are affecting the outcome even Irwin schroer the creator of that wave equation

that basically governs all subatomic Behavior said Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms for Consciousness is absolutely fundamental it cannot be accounted for In terms of anything else Schrodinger had a lecture series called what is life in which he expounds upon his view of Consciousness as being fundamental to physics biology and even life itself he also had had a dog named otman which is the primordial Soul or Eternal self in Hinduism but I digress so that is the big debate in physics and it's one that still hasn't been solved you know in in my

opinion yet we like to think it's been solved And so we come up with ways in which we say oh yeah it's only when the particles intersect with each other and measurement not observation because observation is what requires an actual conscious entity to observe it measurement you might say doesn't but turns out that's not quite true either because the measurement could be in a state of superp position until when until somebody actually looks at that measurement exactly which could happen In the future yeah there's no epistemological way around it having to pour itself through a

human mind ultimately and so like you can say it's the quantum detector but that is as much speculation as somebody saying it's the mind it's it's sort of the speculation versus speculation and I think the sort of SM you know dismissal of the mind being the collapser of the wave function doesn't never sort of made sense to me it feels ideological in you know part of Our sort of you know age of disenchant or materialist reductionist sort of age but what about respected mainstream physicists do any of them have good theories about the mind and

how it relates to wave function collapse renowned Nobel Prize winner in mathmatician Roger Penrose constructed such a theory of Mind called orchestrated objective reduction or orc o for short it argues that within the brain's microtubules SpaceTime itself Exists in superp position and that there's a gravitational component of that SpaceTime superp position that builds up until it reaches a threshold once it hits this threshold the microtubules lose their Quantum coherence and the wave function collapses but before the collapse and during the gravity buildup there is a fleeting window of time a space where nothing is set

in stone where all outcomes exist in a Quantum Haze could this be where Free Will comes into play so Consciousness it's the other way around it depends on that choice which nature makes all the time when the state becomes one or the other rather than the superposition of one and the other and when that happens there is what we're saying now an element of protoconsciousness takes place protoconsciousness is roughly speaking the building block out of which actual Consciousness is constructed hrose Believes his theory of orchestrated objective reduction preserves Free Will so Consciousness is not a

pure computation or to put it differently mashing up Penrose and Wheeler reality is a computation but Free Will and intention is driving that computation it's in the command center Free Will itself is computationally irreducible also if we have free will that seems computationally irreducible yes and so that's the other part of it is if you Add free will into a computational process which by the way most computer scientists don't want to do and which most most scientists don't want to do because they think a free will is just being Randomness Quantum Randomness right in fact

in computers you there's a there's usually in every language there's a command to generate a random number but technically it's not really random because it's using a well- defined algorithm based on some key Phrase and maybe the time you know in nanc or milliseconds that you actually made that request uh and so the only true Randomness in computers comes from Quantum Computing uh because Quantum Computing is relying on the actual Quantum effect of super position collapsing into a position and that is like the only true Randomness and so scientists try to Define Free Will as

the same as that kind of Randomness uh but if you take a different approach Which is this is a computer program that's running but there's a player and an avatar the player can actually make the choice yeah so you've now introduced free will but you need to step out of the system to introduce Free Will and that is the same problem why you know scientists didn't want to deal with Consciousness they priori assertion now let's get back to quantum mechanics in general relativity time and gravity are couple in quantum mechanics gravity Becomes so weak that

it basically becomes a neg negligible Force so again if time and gravity are coupled why wouldn't time also become negligible or superpositional at subatomic Quantum scales in sher's equation you have position and momentum superp positionality the idea that before their observation subatomic particles don't exist in discrete locations their locations are probabilistic excuse my French but that never made any [ __ ] Sense to me now I'm going to propose something very speculative and probably a bit heretical that at subatomic levels just as gravity breaks down time breaks down okay maybe gravity is a force and

time is not but the two are still coupled and it begs the important question why do we take time for granted as a classical Axiom on a subatomic level when we don't understand gravity at all on a subatomic level so maybe time super positionality is what causes Position and momentum superp positionality in other words there's probably some time based wave function that is Upstream of our position and momentum wave function well that would change the Penrose Theory a bit maybe the brain actually decoheres time into a singular linear timeline the brain might be the reason

we experience linear time and when the brain is in a particularly coherent state it might be able to do some interesting things related to time If the brain is a Quantum system as Penrose thinks it likely has access to shards of the future it's almost like your mind is like a stylus and there's like an LP player or something like a record and it's choosing the particular timelines or something and those those sort of already pre-exist you know maybe maybe it's just up to the mind to move the stylus or something yeah yeah well I

think that's an interesting way to look At it you know I look at it more like it's runs of the simulation and and the universe is in fact a quantum computer and you can run the game State forward but then you can come back and change the game State as well like you can save the game State and say okay I ran that now I'm going to run this other one let's see which one is optimal for me uh and then that's the one that's I'm going to let move forward but there was an even

more Heretical branch of physics that began to grow in momentum midcentury one that went a bit farther than wheeler although he did actively entertain it at times this is the notoriously murky field of Paras pychology where the study of Mind matter interactions the mind is no longer limited by the parameters of the body the person's Consciousness and awareness is able to transcend space and time and describe what is going on hundreds or thousands of miles away or Hours or days in the future if you believe the findings of paraschiv sities across the United States Duke

Stanford Washington University at St Louis even Princeton all had vital paraschos a friend of mine who will remain anonymous but now runs a multi-billion dollar hedge fund happened to help run that Lab at Princeton it was called the Princeton engineering anomalous research lab and he was an Expert in one of its staple experiments the random event generator take a well-calibrated device that produces binary outputs based on conventionally thought of as random processes and Quantum Mechanics for example radioactive isotope Decay Photon interference electron tunneling all of these things have a known statistical distribution and so if

you imagine something like imagine you have a wheel that's spinning it's like a rollette Let's call it you either have a black marker or a white marker and so this wheel it's spinning spinning spinning when the radioactive particle decays it stops the wheel so basically you've created this perfect digital coin flip by tying a digital coin flip to a random quantum mechanical process we are guaranteeing even distribution between ones and zeros over a long enough time scale finally you bring an observer present to see the ones and zeros output On the screen hey Jesse how

you doing good how are you doing thanks for me come in all right let's do it the Observer comes in with an intention they're trying to skew the output on the screen towards either ones or zeros I I can see you're already trying to influence aren you yeah should we all should we all try ready mhm you'd expect the Observer not to matter at all for the output to be evenly distributed between ones and zeros with an expected Standard deviation no matter who is present when or where the experiment is done but my friend who

helped run this lab has a ton of corroborated evidence showing that there is a skewing effect and that an observer who comes in with the intention of ones or another Observer with the intention of zeros can often achieve a skewing towards those outputs in a statistically significant way to the extent that one can summarize what we find is that the uh human Mind and the information processing machines seem to be entering into some sort of a dialogue which influences both the machine and uh the human mind that is interacting with it these experimental trials are

very well-run and they adhere to strict scientific protocols and trust me I've thrown the kitchen sink of skepticism at it with him survivorship bias P hacking file drawer issues all your typical issues with experimental protocols and data he Has pretty solid responses to all of these if you look at it as a sort of a social process in science if you look at as a social political process where establishment means that a large cohort of people agree with you I would say it was never established it was always very rejected if you say established means

did you run a well controll experiment that got a result at the level or multiple Well Control experiments that got a result at the level that for Example would allow them to say that a new particle exists in physics or something like that then absolutely I did do an episode with him and maybe when the world is ready I'll drop it but for now I should just say that this is a bridge too far for a lot of people in science it's an epistemological Paradigm Shift not a scientific paradigm shift it says that the intention

and internal state of the Observer matters for what's observed the implications of this are Literally impossible to list but they include and are not limited to an allowance for all sorts of air pockets of different consensus realities this might explain youf the Mandela effect and a whole host of other anomalies we experience in our everyday lives that we explain away because we're told that those experiences are fake or can't happen the crazy thing I've found about random event generators is that there are very few people who've studied them Who don't come out believing that there

is some sort of Mind matter effect even Irwin Schrodinger himself who again developed the famous wave equation said that measuring a particle in its present State could affect its past clearly entertaining parapsychological or Paras pychological adjacent ideas perhaps one of the better compendiums of parapsychological data is Courtney M Block's Encyclopedia of parasyn from duke the PA Lab at Princeton and Dean Raiden's ions also have good data on random event generators the reason random event generators aren't taken seriously even if they show Paradigm shifting mind-blowing effects with their results alone is that we can't figure out

some clear causal mechanism or turn the Mind matter interaction into math or instrumentalize it into any sort of useful technology I think the existing Paradigm is it serves some purpose but I Think we are in the Stone Age I think the philosophical toolbox that we're using to enact our existing scientific method is way behind where would have to be to ever account for this stuff but that doesn't mean the effect doesn't exist it just means we're in the Stone Age on it and it's likely pointing to a new paradigm for another example of this in

the past take Mercury's orbit Newtonian math couldn't describe it we needed to understand the space-time Curvature effect of the Sun and for that we needed Einstein's relativity or take black body radiation an object that absorbs all electromagnetic radiation and reflects none of it this was discovered in the 1860s by Gustav kov but back then it was an anomaly theoretic ically an object that only absorbed light would exponentially heat up and create an UltraViolet catastrophe a cataclysmic explosion we needed Max pl's work in 1900 around Quant to Understand why this doesn't happen mathematically random event generators

in parapsychology are like this the effects are real we just can't turn them into math and it was not a subject that I had any background in from a scholarly standpoint the guy that started the Princeton parasym physicist and propulsions engineer named Bob JN in fact Bob JN was even the dean of Princeton engineering Before starting pair and a lot of his plasma propulsion systems are still used in space this guy basically threw away his career um in order to pursue this I'll also say that naively he didn't expect that it was going to be

received as sort of atrociously as it was I think he thought well as long as I do good experiments that are well controlled you know it'll be treated like everything else in science so he was sort of with his age and everything else kind of Coming from a time period where a lot of the early Quantum experimental people were just before him he's kind of coming out of this mindset of reality is this wide open thing there's a lot to explore and find and he thought that he was just kind of finding and exploring a

new topic like that going to be received that way Bob was ahead of his time and in his book margins of reality he discusses a model of Consciousness in which waves coming from The Mind help collapse the wave function modern scientist Rupert sheldrick fully agrees in fact that's how he thinks Vision Works in general when light comes in changes happen in the mind in the brain and then the images are projected out so my image of you is exactly where it seems to be it's in 3D in full color but it's located right where you're

sitting and it overlaps with you as it were and so every I see is projected out of my mind so my mind has extended Beyond my brain filling the whole world around me well if you think about penrose's model he discusses the space-time superposition buildup as occurring within the human brain if there's anything to this and the idea that our minds are just graphical interfaces then of course you'd be able to affect random quantum mechanical processes you aren't literally affecting the material world with your mind you're just affecting Your unique computational rendering ing of that

Material World your mind is just an interface but we keep bringing up this idea that the mind is an interface do we have any proof of that surely for survival it would make sense that humans would need to be seeing an objective version of reality well that's actually not true at all seeing the true nature of reality is not always adaptive for survival cognitive psychologist Donald Hoffman shows all of the ways in which Perceiving reality actually can hurt chances of survival take color all color is just differentiated by where it sits on the electromagnetic wave

spectrum so why don't we see the wavelengths of light directly because it's in a human's advantage to quickly categorize things it's way more efficient for me to see the color red than a 650 nanometer wavelength to hear a ringing noise instead of 2,000 HZ frequency waves if you see blood you react immediately if You see a bunch of light waves it might take you a little longer to jump into action so humans have Evol to see colors and sounds they aren't intrinsic parts of nature they are highlevel abstractions they're like application icons on a computer

screen they're simple categorizations that allow us to navigate reality not the source code underlying it we don't even know the underlying substrate of what we're seeing and my reality might be very Different from your reality [Music] there's an ocean of pure vibrant Consciousness inside each one of us and it's right at the source and base of mind and it's also at the source of all [Music] matter Nobel prizewinning physicist Ken Wilson who worked at CERN in its early years developed the concept of renormalization which essentially looks at how the behavior of a physical system Changes

when viewed at different energy scales at higher energy levels new and deeper structures of physical laws emerge revealing previously hidden phenomena this process involves progressively zooming in on a system by increasing the energy and in so doing stripping away The Superficial details of lower energy physics to reveal the underlying more fundamental interactions Wilson used renormalization to show that at high energy levels near Critical points such as phase Transitions and materials new Universal Behavior emerges that applies to a wide range of systems essentially by pushing systems to extreme conditions near the critical temperature of a phase

transition for example their underlying Dynamics become more evident in conventional science this mostly applies to material and phase transitions but perhaps Wilson's Concepts here have more to do with the nature of reality itself Than we realize when we do atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons we could literally be ripping holes in the fabric of reality what if there's something about this technology that actually disrupts physical reality or changes time the current Paradigm of atomic energy output is the zarma which exerts 80 to 100 megatons of TNT when we get to upwards of 1 * 10 9th

tons of TNT we can start folding SpaceTime at Will if uh E equals MC squared then the only way to get this sort of SpaceTime metric effect is if you have enough energy you got it because if you do it the only two ways to warp space time is with mass or a lot of energy think of mass and energy as same thing MH mass is ice energy as Steam okay but they're both water okay so same thing kind of here energy and mass have this relationship so you need to get plank scale energy or

something I cannot if I Use Mass to do this I'm going I need I need Mass more than the earth I'm going to perturb everything on the planet so what's probably happening it's it's a whole lot of that uh so for all we know we're ripping little holes in SpaceTime now or sending out exotic electromagnetic or scal longitudinal waves every time we do a nuclear test this would explain why UFOs constantly show up around nuclear blasts as documented by the great work of Journalist Robert Hastings in fact in his seminal book UFOs and nukes Hastings

discusses intelligently moving green Fireballs constantly showing up around atmospheric tests these were documented by Edward J Rupel head of blue book at the time and Dr Lincoln laaz head of meteorology at University of New Mexico the rumors were they're probably Soviet surveillance planes surveillance planes you know and the controller told me they were basically stationary you know the The Soviets flying helicopters over Montana I don't think so so again with extreme energy output you rip away higher levels of abstraction getting to the root information layer of reality and breaking out of the simulation this even

makes sense in quantum mechanics remember Heisenberg uncertainty between position and momentum well we also have Quantum indeterminacy between time and level of Energy in other words precise measurements between time and energy trade against each other and high levels of energy might disrupt time you talk about Trinity and you talk about Roswell and similar things happen in the towns after the explosions you have people report Devils chasing them around and all sorts of Paranormal Activity so are you opening up a window to another plane you say that energy correlates with information yes so if you have

this Massive energy kind of uh output then all of a sudden maybe you can you can see more yes and it makes an impact that continues that's that's permanence so the question is is it is it a way to can we walk up the chain of events can we get back to the source in some way um so well the idea that uh they are from the future is one idea there's an idea that's more radical is that this is all a simulation the same bizarre effects may Have occurred with Tesla and Thomas towns and

Brown's experiments agu bonson who helped establish quantum gravity which led to string theory with his Institute of field physics in North Carolina was also funding towns and Brown's High voltage gravitational experiments at the same time bonson is quoted as saying strange things happen at high mega voltage across short distances bonson talks about anomalous phenomena that happen When you get into extremely high voltages at extremely low currents he was clearly referring to Thomas Townsen Brown's work Townsen Brown himself thought that his work had clear implications for time travel and he was very aware that when you

mess with gravity you mess with [Music] time and what about CERN a single particle beam in the Large Hadron Collider creates 6.5 Terra electron Volts Collide the beams and you're at 13 Terra electron volts I can't even begin to describe the level of energy output here what does this have to do with breaking out of the simulation well just listen to what public health expert Dr astd stuckelberger had to say about her conversation with certain CERN physicists there are beings from portals coming in and out it's physicist from the St who told me this they've

testified to beings coming in and out of Portals yes okay so that was the weirdest thing I'm including in this video and it's definitely not hard evidence I've emailed Dr stuckelberger if anyone can get in touch with her vouch for her character or introduce me I would welcome it so I have no idea if portals are being created by cern's beam collisions but what about the American particle accelerator the cosmotron at Brook Haven National Labs cosmotron was the world's highest energy accelerator Before the Large Hadron Collider well apparently there was a UFO crash collected by

the lab itself in 1992 it's about 7:00 at night and being November it was full dark and all of a sudden it was lighter out than it is right now and what about the plasma orbs that people in and around the NASA space shuttle have described or the controlled ball lightning that seemed to show up in Germany from 1942 to 1945 called food Fighters plasma is the fourth energy state after solids liquids and gases it's what happens when you apply extremely high energy to something for more on this look at physicist Ken scher's work on

exotic vacuum objects and Ken Wilson's model an object's plasma State might reflect its true reality more than its lower energy instantiations so maybe we get to deeper layers of reality deeper levels of ontological Truth with high energy Output and that's just one one way to break out of the simulation but one we should probably be pretty careful with and leave in the hand of experts maybe there are other more natural ways out of the simulation we have a bit more personal control [Music] over people went to elus as human beings they walked away thinking they

were Immortal this is the Fight Club of the ancient world whatever happened there no One talked about it under penalty of death we have no Great War no Great Depression our Great War is a spiritual war our Great Depression is our [Applause] [Music] lives a certain percentage of near-death experiencers experience what's called a Life review and you're basically replaying every single event from your life but you're doing it not just on a Two-dimensional screen it's as if you're in a virtual reality or a holograph so danian Brinkley called it a holographic panoramic three-dimensional review of

your life and so you have to replay every moment but what happens is you have to replay it not from your own perspective but from the perspective of other people in your life so he was in the military and actually you know killed people during the Vietnam war he had to experience what it was like to Take a bullet from himself and then he had to see the ripple effect of that guy who died of his wife and kids how did this play out what are the effects of your actions and as a computer scientist

as an engineer the question that I ask first is if it can be replayed like that it has to be recorded like that because every single employee understands that they are part of a [Music] Ho the first thing most people think when they hear the word simulation theory is the movie The Matrix partially inspired by Jean balard but the idea that the physical world is an illusion shielding us from a more primordial unseen realm dates back to Antiquity a lot of ancient Traditions have this concept of an illusion a great illusion like Maya that would

be the Hindu version and um Plato's Cave uh glone talks about a form of meditation or a Protocol to sort of See Beyond the Veil do you sort of believe in anything like that or I think Plato's Cave was the most powerful simplest way to show our predicament but you know that's why we have science I mean yeah that's what Plato wanted us to do he wanted to then develop science out of that to calibrate the illusion and and then go go outside and and try to see what the reality was that was creating it

so it is an illusion until you can measure it and The question is can you so we're stuck in this cave what do we do about it this is the question the mystics faced in response they devised various spiritual Technologies to enable them to make this Celestial Ascent to the heavens typically by inducing Altered States Of Consciousness via sensory deprivation fasting isolation abstinence meditation ceremonial r ual breathing techniques intense visualization and sometimes drugs I think any tradition that makes Use of psychedelics whether they want to or not are going to make deliberate contact this is

why you can find Buddhist monks in the Himalayas and Jewish rabbis in 13th century Spain both going into isolation at temples and following the same aesthetic protocols as well as reporting very similar mystical experiences the breathing and visualization Protocols of the Jewish Mera Mystics mirror those found in yoga And pranayama in India so closely that modern-day Scholars of Jewish cabala are using Indian tantric texts to better understand their own texts including the corresponding esoteric symbolic systems and when the doy Lama himself met with a group of Jewish cabalists he was very surprised to find that

the cabalistic meditations and prayer techniques were strikingly similar to Buddhist Meditation techniques at one point point in their conversation his Holiness Interjected to ask the cabalists if Jewish Angels had colors associated with them the calist replied oh yes some are blue and some are orange the dolly Lama became fascinated and urged them to continue saying he found much sophistication in their thinking the dolly Lama also met with Harvard psychiatrist John Mack about aliens and expressed a similar companionship of worldviews the goal of these esoteric practices other than instilling Discipline is to induce stress on the

psyche and body to derange the senses and lead to Altered States Of Consciousness the Common Thread between nearly all mystical practices regardless of religion or culture is the idea that one had to break the servitude of soul to the body in order to liberate the spirit and so if our Consciousness our soul is kind of contained or filtered by our body by our brain that would be consistent with a lot of these mythol Ological stories that the body is kind of like a container almost like a prison like our soul has like fallen from this

in like very rich Dynamic extra multi-dimensional world and we're kind of like stuck here in this like limited Fallen World of [Music] death but the similarities don't end there all across the world you can find an emphasis on the soul ascending through various levels of Heaven The Book of Enoch in the Mera texts of ancient Jewish Mystics describe an Ascent through seven hecko also called palaces via the use of breathing techniques visualization and Mantra like prayers quick side note just keep the term palaces in mind they also describe encountering Celestial Gatekeepers at each level to

whom you had to give the proper password or sign to pass some of these Angelic Gatekeepers were dangerous if passed Improperly this is reflected in the Jew parable of the parties where four rabbis attempted Celestial set and only one came back alive with his sanity intact the others either died or went insane some Scholars even believe that the Apostle Paul may have been familiar with these practices and he described his own Celestial Ascent to the third heaven in the second Corinthians one in which these Angelic Gatekeepers gave him a thorn in the flesh wasn't Paul

Supposedly According to some Scholars kind of a cabalist too like he was a in the meraba kind of um you know Ezekiel tradition it looks like it I mean you know I'm not a new testament scholar so I don't want to go out on limb and say for sure you know that he was but yeah if you look at his you know his conversion it looks similar to meraba you know uh and I do have friends who are New Testament Scholars and they won't come they don't feel comfortable Coming out and saying these things but

they'll tell me in secret they'll say yeah yeah you know Jesus too by the way and I'm like really why don't why don't you write a book about that in the book of Acts he goes up on the cloud that's right if we go back even further to the oldest religious text we have the ancient Egyptian pyramid texts from 2,400 BC we see the pharaoh's soul is Guided by the priests through the seven AR also called you guessed it palaces Again with the priests chanting mantlik prayers and the deceased Pharaoh being given the required passwords

and amulets to pass safely through the Gates of these seven palaces in the mithis Liturgy found in Greek magical Papi an initiate employs breathing techniques visualizations chants and ceremonial rituals to ascend through the seven Heavens again being confronted at each by a gatekeeper who had to be supplicated with the proper passwords And signs and in Islam there are seven Earths and seven heavens and in Chinese shanking Daoism one again uses breathing techniques visualizations Mont and ceremonial rituals to send one's soul out of the body and through the heavens and there are specific incantations and talismans

for each level compare all of these to near-death experiences and psychedelic experiences like DMT where people come back from the experience saying that the place they Went was more real than real the pervasiveness of this idea even amongst drastically different cultures and people with no background in mysticism strongly indicates that the concept are Downstream of some sort of objective [Music] reality so we see this this metaphor of forgetfulness uh and of veiling across different religions and then you can even see other interesting metaphors Like in the Bhagavad Gita there's a metaphor that the soul puts

on uh the body or an identity like a series of clothes garments and then it takes them off just like you would take off certain that you're wearing and it turns out in the Sufi tradition here roomi is using almost the exact the exact same metaphor right he's saying the soul takes on the body is clothed by the body it's like he's putting on clothes and you start to look at all these different metaphors And then you then you ask yourself I mean too often I think scientists will just dismiss these not just scientists even

social scientists and religious Scholars within Academia are trained to just dismiss these stories but what if they were telling us something that is actually happening but they didn't have the language necessarily to describe it in a more technical way yeah so what would they do they would use metaphors right and so They had to use a metaphor that would make sense to people at that point in history so 2,000 years ago you could easily understand the metaphor of putting on uh a set of clothes right or this idea that the world is an illusion yeah

uh mayia is a term that's used in the Sanskrit and Buddhism and Hinduism as a key part of their mology that the physical world isn't real and so if you look at the term Maya it actually means something a little more subtle than just Illusion and so one of the things I think we're dealing with is that we're talking in English and We're translating all these terms but we don't always capture some of the more subtle meanings that were attached to it so Maya is not just illusion it also means the power of Illusion so

it's the power by which the gods let's say uh can make you think this world is real but it turns out it's even more subtle than that and someone once described it I think the best Description is he said if you go to a magic show and there's a magician on stage and you know he's not really sawing that woman in half right you know it's an illusion but yet you're like oh my god wow that's cool that's the reason you're there to enjoy the show is you actually make the decision to kind of suspend

your disbelief uh in order to enjoy the show and so that's the the more yeah exactly take the blue pill right the red right you're actually Deciding that you will be fooled by this world and turns out that concept you know it's not just an Eastern concept it it exists in some of the Jude Christian Traditions as well but in the Islamic Traditions there's actual verses that say we have set up this world for you as a game as a Pastime as a sport right and that it is a particular kind of delusion right it

uses a particular word elor ruri and it has another word in front of it like metal which actually means it's An enjoyable delusion like the whole world is an enjoyable delusion now we all know bad things happen in this world so why would you know why would the scriptures be calling it an enjoyable delusion or a magic show or a game or a Leela the play of the Gods uh which is another one of the Hindu terms that they use and the reason is because that's how enjoy is like quote unquote right when you go

to watch a horror show uh a horror movie you me you're watching People like hack each other up and doing all these terrible things and you're enjoying it why it's because it's part of the illusion and part of the story and I think the old metaphors are of a Dre The World Is A Dream the world is an illusion the world is a stage play are all powerful metaphors but we live in a time when we have more advanced technology so we can use new metaphors that perhaps describe it better it's like a movie you

have a script but you Can change the script if you want and there's other people that are in there with you we're all the actors but we're also the audience watching ourselves you basically say we're a massively multiplayer online role-playing video game right that is I think the best metaphor to date for this thing called reality that might be too hard to explain in words it might be ineffable what what do UFOs possibly have to do with the simulation hypothesis because I Know you're obviously you know uh one of the main uh progenitors of the

simulation hypothesis but you're also very interested in UFOs and you know a lot of the sort of top thinkers on that subject as well yeah I've spent a lot of time with different folks in the UFO community and you know I'm I'm an adviser of the Galileo project and peripherally involved with the soul project as well uh at Stanford and you know one of the problems is that it Seems that UFOs act in such absurd ways that we can't often take it completely seriously you know from a scientific point of view because it doesn't sound

always like we're talking about a physical thing sometimes it it is a physical thing and sometimes it isn't so jacqu valet told me about this case that really got me thinking and it was somewhere in like Northern California or or Oregon you know where there's the there's these tall redwood trees and he Said the witnesses said that the UFO had come down at a 45 Dee angle and he said left some marks on the ground and so everybody came and investigated and then all the other investigators left but jacqu stayed behind and he asked them

well you said it came down at a 45 degree angle but that would mean it would have had to cut through the redwood trees I mean these are tall trees they're like yeah it did that but we didn't want to say that because we Would sound crazy if we said that right so when you have something that's that's cutting through physical matter and then suddenly it becomes more physical to me that reminded me of either a holographic projection or rendering within a video game right within a video game while you're rendering you can become semi-transparent

you can walk through walls but then once once you're rendered in the world you can't go through the Wall anymore you're in like that physical state and so it's possible that UFOs are being projected into this world and then they become part of the world so I'm not saying you aren't physical in the platonic sense they might be hyperobjects that exist outside of the cave meant to be glimpsed so you know there's something higher to Aspire to outside of the bounds of the narrow simulation you're in they scramble your brain a bit and raise your

Consciousness Causing you to contemplate higher Realms this is a thesis that Dr James Madden flushes out in his great book unidentified flying hyperobjects empirically it also just seems like UFOs have access to the information substrate of the universe itself they can materialize and dematerialize at will and seem to skip across time they're probably way more concerned with time and timelines than they are specific individuals in their lives and maybe This whole worldview has a thing or two to do with secret UFO government programs after all Diana pula's Source in her new book encounters was the

daughter of somebody who she thought was in a secret space program one thing that will always give me the chills from that account is that her father would constantly refer to the word simulacra at lunch tables with his colleagues we are living in a computer programmed reality and the only clue we Have to it is when some variable is changed Deja Vu what did you just say nothing just had a little Deja Vu switch acket what is it a de vu usually a glitch in The Matrix it happens when they change [Music] something it was

actually a speech by Philip K dick that got me thinking along these lines because you know he had a famous speech in Mets France where he said we are living in a computer Programmed reality and that's the famous line but then he said and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed some alteration occurs in our reality and so basically what he was saying is you can go back and change the timeline change the variable and rerun the timeline and he came to believe that his novel turned into a very

well-known series called The Man in the High Castle which was about Germany and Japan winning World War II he came to believe That was a real timeline not just something he had imagined right and he came to believe that the simulators actually decided to rerun another timeline and they like this timeline better that this timeline has gone on further so it gets back to this idea that not only could there be multiple timelines but they could be cut off at certain points and that's what we do in computer science that's what we do like if

an AI is playing a video game against You it might project forward to see what the best outcomes are and then it will trim the tree if you will so that it would just go forward speaking of Philip K dick I know you're friends with his wife he wrote a another book called The Adjustment team about like you know somebody that a team that has more root access than than we would if you will and they can sort of you know mess with timelines you know somebody gets to the office early and they're sort of

you Know they're they're they're doing their thing and it's a freeze frame and so do you think that's possible do you think that there are sort of timeline manipulators out there I I think so you know Tessa his wife she told me that he came up with the idea for that story which eventually became the movie The Adjustment buo with Matt Damon and Emily Blunt because he went into the bathroom and there was a light that he had turned on off many times like uh he he thought It was a like a chain if you

remember the old chains but it had been replaced with a light switch and so he began to wonder did somebody change this out while I wasn't here because i' I've you know turned this light on a hundred times and I know it was a chain and now it's a light switch or the other way around I forget exactly which way it was but it was different right and so so that's when he began to wonder about that and if you listen to that full Speech of Philip K dick from Mets France what he's saying is

these uh alterations would occur in our reality we would have the sense that we were rerunning the same events that we were saying the same things we were experiencing the same we would have the same things we would have a sense of deja vu and he said this is a clue that some at some point in the past a variable was changed and the simulation was run forward and so he ended up using almost the exact same Language and I didn't know this when when I was choosing the term clue on a treasure hunt that

says maybe the future is sending us clues about where we might want to end up and maybe that's what UFOs are it's people from the future sending back or not people but entities from the future sending back information about where they want us to go and maybe there's multiple ones sending us back so human evolution is almost about being able to pick the best time possible Timeline or something it's like you're you're you're you're optimizing timelines you're you're improving timelines continuously or something right right that that I mean what if today we think think World

War II has happened and this is you know it's a fixed past and there's going to be a future from here but what if this is just one run of the simulation and we're trying to optimize you know something so what is the optimization function that We're trying to optimize by running multiple timelines that we are the simulators in this case uh and it could be that we are doing that all the time we are basically sensing these multiple Futures and how could we sense these Futures if they haven't happened yet right I don't know

and and unless they actually have happened as little runs of a simulation exactly and that is the difference between a human brain and AI is we sort of have these intuitions with Low sample size data or no data and sometimes it's a totally irrational decision but it just sort of feels right and it ends up working out and nobody you know we don't have like a neuroscientific model as to how that works and so this is a really interesting model and so I guess if you are a a a human playing this sort of game

are you just trying to look out for what resonates with you and like be in touch with your instincts or something Or like because presumably right I'm not lelo's demon and I I I can't know at least in my my own little branch of the Multiverse or even you know block Universe I can't know exactly what decision is going to end up optimally for for me or for the world and so do you just have to sort of go with what resonates with you you have to almost develop that sense for you know possibly what

you've experienced in the future or something Yeah I think so it's like a future memory in a in a sense you're sensing what is the best outcome now best is a relative term just like earlier I talked about an enjoyable illusion the world is enjoyable but enjoyable only in the sense that you're going to have to experience all this stuff similarly here it's possible that as you're playing the game the way the way we play video games is we have quests and we choose quests and certain Quests are more difficult than others right and it's

possible that we end up choosing a very difficult Quest or or a difficult storyline could be that we hamstring our character with a physical handicap right at the beginning but maybe that's an indication of a much higher level player than those of us who don't have physical handicaps because now they want to play it in hard mode right or difficult mode uh so they've cranked up that difficulty level so I I Think we are sensing these Futures and we have to be careful this is why I I think this idea of NPC mode comes into

play because sometimes we're just uh we get so influenced from the people around us right I you spent time in Silicon Valley I spent time in Silicon Valley and you start to think differently you know you start to think oh everyone wants to start the next unicorn the next billion dollar company and that becomes the priority whereas if You spend time in New York or Hollywood you know you're worried about the next film or whatever but you get so influenced by the environment around you that you start to make decisions based on that rather than

uh an internal intuition yeah and Stephen Spielberg you know says he teaches his kids that the best intuitions are like Whispers but you you in order to to tune into the whisper you have to tune out all the loud noise all around you and so Sometimes we're just making decisions based on this this programming that we have oh okay this job will pay me more than that therefore I'm just G to go with this job right but in fact this other job will be in a place where you won't be stressed out and maybe that's

where you're meant to be and so I think you you have to separate out what I call genuine Clues which could be messages from the future if you take sort of a quantum physics approach if you're more Spiritual or new age you might say the guard guardian angels are sending you these messages or you might say it's the adjustment team that's working with you from a Phil of K dip science fiction perspective but one way or another we we get these intuitions and I think they are about the experiences that we might have at some

point in the future in our material world view the world is undergoing a constant process of entropy from order to chaos this is The second law of Thermodynamics and it cannot be reversed it is also the basis for Chaos Theory everything changes and everything decays but if the Paras cycology studies I mentioned are real maybe Consciousness is the only entropy reducer on Earth just look at the work of Carl friston perhaps the greatest living neuroscientist friston's free energy principles say that neuron are attracted to low entropy and Order rather than chaos and Randomness there Is

even a term coined for the biological attraction to order it's called centropy or the inverse of entropy Consciousness and intention are likely what makes biology attracted to order and probably a big driver in evolution something Irwin Sher himself theorized in his great 1944 lecture series what is life and something that biologist Michael Levan at tus is discovering now that biological cells have clear goals and [Music] Intentions and so because of that Consciousness must be preserved at all costs but if humans don't choose to remain conscious and exercise their divine right they can get taken over

by the computer program and turned into a non-player character one of the great founders of AI of course is uh uh Dr McCarthy at Stanford okay he had the ai ai lab on the on the hill and he told a a story again this was when AI was a very you Know there were only two or three Labs that did AI in in the world and his story was uh you know in in the future you're going on with your job for example your uh you you selling some you know insurance or something you you're

selling something you fill out a form and people pay you and in the evening you you go home and you watch TV with your kids okay and then the next morning you get into your car you go to the office and you fill out some forms and People pay you and you go home okay and then one day you're going to get a letter from the Bureau of simulation the Bureau of simulation says uh dear sir we have observed your daily behavior for the last six months and you have not done anything that was not

predicted by the model of the world we we run a model of the world and you're in it if in the next six months you don't Do something that's not predicted by the model you will be replaced by a simulated human so the guy is in shock and you know tells his wife you know I I need to do something and I'm going to change my life completely so he drops out of his job takes whatever money he has moves to the Himalayas starts climbing mountains meditates does all the things you're supposed to do you

know and and six months later he goes Home a week goes by and he feels really good goes back to his job and there a letter that arrives it's from the Bureau of simulation that says Dear Sir in the last six months you still haven't done anything that wasn't predicted by the simulation model and you have been replaced so he's still there doing his job waking up in the morning driving his car and so on but he doesn't exist anymore yeah he NPC at yeah piece of Software that does all that we live in a

modern world obsessed with material things and becoming increasingly obsessed with artificial intelligence and low-level virtual simulations on our phones as the great Marshall mclan once said every media extension of man is an amputation if our universe is in fact a simulation and world religions and science point to this we should probably be thinking more about how to break out Of it and into a higher Realm by contemplating and exercising virtue instead of being obsessed with dropping into lower more bitc compressed digital worlds to escape our pain if we can Ascend maybe we can see ourselves

for who we really are and our world for what it truly is as the great Irwin schroer ended all of his lectures otman equals Bron that's our show thank you RZ ver for your time and amazing work and to the audience for entertaining this Slightly skito rant until next time I'm Jesse Michaels oh thank you baby this is so cute that was good coconut yes yes yes yes yes yes po amazing meow meow meow yes yes yes ice cream so good cha Chula money gun I got your name wow a lot of GI for you

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