Rizwan Virk

Because it turns out, you know, they've been trying to use metaphors to try to describe something that is outside of this world.

And how do you describe something outside of this world?

You can't.

You have to use metaphors, you know.

Have you ever watched Battlestar Galactica?

It was a science fiction series in kind of post-Iraq days was the version I'm thinking of.

And they had these AI robots who, oddly enough, became religious fanatics.

I don't know why, as opposed to the rest of the people.

But one of the guys has a line and he goes, what is the most basic article of faith?

She goes, what?

He goes, that this is not all there is.

And that actually is true of the simulation hypothesis as well.

But with the simulation hypothesis, we have a techno-scientific metaphor and a way to describe how that can happen.

Like, for example, Genesis seems ridiculous if we try to take it at face value.

God spoke, there was light, and then he said, create the water.

He said, create the land.

Okay, now create the forests and the trees and the fruit.

Okay, now create the animals.

Now create the people in six days.

Again, from a modern point of view, you're like, yeah, okay.