Rizwan Virk

So that gets a little weird at that point, right?

Because now we're saying that time isn't the same thing, right, that we think it is.

So with the simulation hypothesis, we're saying that space doesn't really exist.

It basically gets rendered for us like a video game.

And then with this second idea, we're saying that time doesn't really exist because what you remember could have been either implanted memories or it could be a specific run of the simulation, right?

So if you run it again, maybe things are slightly different the second time you run it.

So Philip K. Dick came to believe that his novel, The Man in the High Castle, which –

It was turned into a pretty cool series.

I don't know if you've seen it.

It was on Amazon a few years ago.

But in the novel and in the series, Germany and Japan won World War II.

And so you see an America that's been divided.

The East Coast is run by the Germans.

The West Coast is run by the Japanese.

And you see this kind of fascist-type world.

And so he later came to believe that...

that this actually happened and somehow the simulators reran it again and the current timeline is one that was allowed to go forward.

further forward than where that one might have ended.

And so he says that at some point, all these memories came flooding back to him of this other timeline.

He called it, he used this Greek word, it's called an anamnesis, which means a loss of forgetfulness, right?