Rizwan Virk

And in the Greek traditions, there's,

The river of forgetfulness.

You have to cross it when you incarnate.

And I was on a podcast recently.

The woman who was running it was from the Big Bang Theory.

She's Jewish and she's telling me, oh, we have the same thing.

We have this angel.

Is it Mayim Bialik?

Yeah, it was Mayim Bialik.

Yep.

When she puts, she goes, we have this angel who, you know, Leila, I think, who puts her hand on your upper lip here.

And that's why we have a cleft.

But the reason she does it is you know everything and then you forget everything when she presses it.

So again, that's a metaphor.

I don't think that was meant to say there's a real angel that actually is sitting there.

So I think many of the things in the religious traditions can be reinterpreted from a simulation point of view.

And that at least gives us a way, a new way to think about it, that maybe we shouldn't just dismiss them because, you know, here we are in Silicon Valley, people tend to be

You know, either they're religious or they're kind of materialists and atheists.

But maybe there's something in between.

Well, you know, when I thought about this originally, like when I started writing back in 2019, I thought we were maybe, you know, 50% of the way there.