Neil deGrasse Tyson

Started 50, 100,000 years ago.

I'm good with that.

we surely that there would be some evolutionary path and just for those who are et fans uh consider that we all would judge the roman empire to be an intelligent civilization yet aliens trying to communicate with them with radio waves would conclude that there's no technology on earth right so we spent a lot of time being smart but without the technology

And so that's the real question.

How much longer do we have technology before we exterminate ourselves?

But anyhow, Chuck, this is Cosmic Queries.

Bring it on.

And Nick, we're going to try to bang out a whole lot in this third and final segment.

So let's try to keep the answers tight.

Theological, philosophical.

So Nick, I love those questions.

Would that mean that the programmers of that simulation would program into our brains a perception of free will, even if they know the outcome in advance at every moment?

Why can't just the programmers be indistinguishable from God if they have power over everything?

Got it.

Right, because the calculation or the decision is not made in a vacuum.

It's been completely preloaded with the world's life experience or whatever is sitting right behind that one decision.

Is that a fair way to think about this?

You just made a point embarrassingly clear that humans require like a fourth of our lives just to function as participating humans in civilization.

That's embarrassing, but true, right?

Right.