Dr. Brian Keating

And there are some of my colleagues, and I'd love to talk to you about the psychology of aliens. There's a huge... murmuration in the zeitgeist right now, both that super advanced technology is visiting the Earth, incomprehensible distances and so forth, and simultaneously that there are untold worlds yet to be discovered where life is not only abundant, but it's also maybe superior to us.

And there are some of my colleagues, and I'd love to talk to you about the psychology of aliens. There's a huge... murmuration in the zeitgeist right now, both that super advanced technology is visiting the Earth, incomprehensible distances and so forth, and simultaneously that there are untold worlds yet to be discovered where life is not only abundant, but it's also maybe superior to us.

And there are some of my colleagues, and I'd love to talk to you about the psychology of aliens. There's a huge... murmuration in the zeitgeist right now, both that super advanced technology is visiting the Earth, incomprehensible distances and so forth, and simultaneously that there are untold worlds yet to be discovered where life is not only abundant, but it's also maybe superior to us.

And maybe they are so advanced and so in possession of Moore's Law for 80 more doubling periods than we've enjoyed it for that, in fact, they've created us in sort of giant silicon apparatus. This is called the simulation hypothesis. And, by the way, the greatest adherence to both the alien reality hypothesis and the simulation hypothesis are atheists, right?

And maybe they are so advanced and so in possession of Moore's Law for 80 more doubling periods than we've enjoyed it for that, in fact, they've created us in sort of giant silicon apparatus. This is called the simulation hypothesis. And, by the way, the greatest adherence to both the alien reality hypothesis and the simulation hypothesis are atheists, right?

And maybe they are so advanced and so in possession of Moore's Law for 80 more doubling periods than we've enjoyed it for that, in fact, they've created us in sort of giant silicon apparatus. This is called the simulation hypothesis. And, by the way, the greatest adherence to both the alien reality hypothesis and the simulation hypothesis are atheists, right?

But it's natural, right? Yeah. So, you're going to subordinate your belief in a God that is Judeo-Christian, say, because then you'd have to do things, right? Then you'd have to, you know, have obligations on you to the community, to your wife, to your parents. Sacrifices. Sacrifices to the Sabbath.

But it's natural, right? Yeah. So, you're going to subordinate your belief in a God that is Judeo-Christian, say, because then you'd have to do things, right? Then you'd have to, you know, have obligations on you to the community, to your wife, to your parents. Sacrifices. Sacrifices to the Sabbath.

But it's natural, right? Yeah. So, you're going to subordinate your belief in a God that is Judeo-Christian, say, because then you'd have to do things, right? Then you'd have to, you know, have obligations on you to the community, to your wife, to your parents. Sacrifices. Sacrifices to the Sabbath.

You might have obligations, but I don't need those if I believe in an alien who's on Proxima Centauri.

You might have obligations, but I don't need those if I believe in an alien who's on Proxima Centauri.

You might have obligations, but I don't need those if I believe in an alien who's on Proxima Centauri.

And the tuning. You have a fine tuner, right? These same people will reject the arguments of design from fine tuning, which I'm not saying I'm comfortable with those signs. We discussed that already. I mean, we can put up many counterexamples of things that are extremely exquisitely tuned that didn't have a designer whatsoever.

And the tuning. You have a fine tuner, right? These same people will reject the arguments of design from fine tuning, which I'm not saying I'm comfortable with those signs. We discussed that already. I mean, we can put up many counterexamples of things that are extremely exquisitely tuned that didn't have a designer whatsoever.

And the tuning. You have a fine tuner, right? These same people will reject the arguments of design from fine tuning, which I'm not saying I'm comfortable with those signs. We discussed that already. I mean, we can put up many counterexamples of things that are extremely exquisitely tuned that didn't have a designer whatsoever.

And the Earth's distance to the sun is not exquisitely tuned in a sense that necessitated a designer to do it. In other words, we wouldn't – the anthropic principle would suggest we wouldn't be here if the things were radically different from the way it is. Yeah.

And the Earth's distance to the sun is not exquisitely tuned in a sense that necessitated a designer to do it. In other words, we wouldn't – the anthropic principle would suggest we wouldn't be here if the things were radically different from the way it is. Yeah.

And the Earth's distance to the sun is not exquisitely tuned in a sense that necessitated a designer to do it. In other words, we wouldn't – the anthropic principle would suggest we wouldn't be here if the things were radically different from the way it is. Yeah.

And actually, a lot of the parameters in cosmology and particle physics and symmetries that we talked about earlier are not as finely tuned as a radio dial, if you remember those, as you and I do, but most of the younger folks won't. But you've got to tune it.

And actually, a lot of the parameters in cosmology and particle physics and symmetries that we talked about earlier are not as finely tuned as a radio dial, if you remember those, as you and I do, but most of the younger folks won't. But you've got to tune it.