Jordan Crowder

You're sitting there in a chair.

You exist, right?

I exist, yeah.

You exist.

I think we can say that conclusively.

It's so important to understand that, because your head can spin by diving into all these theories, but you exist, this world exists.

There is an objective reality out there, but it is informational-based, and it conveys that information to us.

We bring it in through our five main physical senses, and then we render this reality inside of our head.

You know, it goes into our reticular activating system, and the thalamus kind of projects this sort of mental movie into our cortex.

And so inside of our mind's eye, we're playing this...

this simulation, but that simulation is based on real actual objective data in the real world, but it's flavored by our beliefs and our patterns and our addictions and our behaviors and our thoughts and our feelings.

So it is a simulation.

Yeah, it's a simulation inside of your head based on a real objective world.

And I think when you fuse those two things together, it explains so many things.

It explains all the discrepancies.

How can it be a simulation and virtual and also be very real and solid?

And it's because it's a little bit of everything.

Yeah, and it's a great place to start because it's what started my whole, you know, journey here.

But also the more I started being transparent about it and talking about it, people from all walks of life and ages and backgrounds and cultures came to me with telling me almost identical stories.

You know, this is not unique at all, but I...