Rizwan Virk

He was an interesting guy, right?

Yeah.

And he said some interesting things.

In fact, all the way back in 1977 in Metz, France at a sci-fi convention, he said – there's a pretty famous quote.

He said, we are living in a computer-programmed reality and the only clue we have to it is if some variable is changed, some alteration occurs in our reality.

And that's become kind of a famous quote in the simulation world.

But if you listen to the rest of the quote, he says, well, we would basically rerun the same events and we would change some variables.

And we would have a sense of deja vu, like maybe we've already done this.

Maybe I've talked to you before in a different run of the simulation.

And this idea, like after I wrote my first book on this topic, Simulation Hypothesis,

This idea wouldn't leave me that, well, if you can run one simulation, you can certainly run it multiple times.

In fact, that's what we would do.

If we were running a simulation of the weather, we wouldn't just run it once.

We would run it multiple times.

And if we were doing a simulation of whatever, pandemic, anything, name it, we would change the variables and we would go forward.

And so, you know, when I interviewed Tessa, you know, Phil K. Dick's last wife, she said that he came to believe this was really happening, right?

That someone was altering with our reality and they would change a few variables and rerun the simulation forward.

So now we're getting pretty deep in the rabbit hole.

So this is the topic of my second book, which is called The Simulated Multiverse.

This idea that each of these timelines could be like a different run of the simulation itself.