Rizwan Virk

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3,730 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard May 2024 last heard 17 Jun

Rizwan Virk’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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In the same way, the role-playing game version, the RPG version,
We exist as players as well.
And that's, I think, what has the link to the spiritual traditions who say that there's a soul and the soul inhabits the body.
Like Rumi, who's a famous poet.
He's a mystical Sufi poet.
And he says that the soul puts on the body like we put on a pair of clothes or a set of garments.
Mm-hmm.
And the Bhagavad Gita says the same thing.
It says the soul or the Atman puts on the body like a set of garments and then it takes it off.
Because in that tradition, you're playing the game multiple times.
You're going back and forth.
And so the NPC version, people can kind of freak out if they think we're just all NPCs.
Yeah, exactly.
And so how can you have free will in a system that's deterministic?
Yeah, if everything's precoded.
Now, it turns out just because it's precoded doesn't mean you know the outcome.
So there's an idea called computational irreducibility.
And what it says is even for like a cellular automata, have you ever seen these?
They're like squares, and then they light up.
There was one called the Game of Life, which is an early cellular automata.
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