Neil deGrasse Tyson

Before we get to the questions that Chuck has collected, Nick, if it's one thing to simulate all the brains, I get that.

But it's another thing, the fact that I can go into a garden and then look at a flower or dig through the soils and keep digging and reach the mantle of the earth.

Whoever's simulating us has to simulate not only what my brain is doing, but it has to simulate all the things my brain is experiencing.

And that's not just for me.

Someone else could dig that same hole, and they should be finding the same thing.

So isn't the total complexity of the world, doesn't that have to be part of this simulation?

Even the fact that I, as an astrophysicist, look out to the edge of the universe, decoding the nature of the Big Bang and all time and space that followed it,

So why just limit your estimates to the power of the human brain if everything and the unfolding of the great cosmic story has to also happen alongside it?

That was the next thing he was going to talk about.

Okay, continue.

Wait, Chuck, finish the point.

And then we'll pick it up there.

I just thought of something else in support.

So what that would mean, Chuck...

Chuck, check whether it means whole sections of the Pacific Ocean where there isn't a boat, right?

Then no one has, so it doesn't exist until someone has to then see it and process it.

The program would know, the programmer would know you're about to bring out an electron microscope, so they have time to up the calculation right in the beam right there.

Very cool.

It's probably Ghislaine.

Okay, I can tell you what the Kardashev scale is.