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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This is back in the days of Commodore 64.

I'm old enough to remember.

Yeah, the modem.

So it wasn't a massively multiplayer.

Got it, got it.

You could only have like five characters on the screen in one room.

But it was one of the first.

And they were looking for a term to call the guy on the screen that you're controlling.

And they said it felt like they were taking themselves and...

squeezing into the phone lines and squeezing into this little character on the screen.

So they borrowed the term from the spiritual traditions to call it an avatar, and that stuck.

So now all of our characters in video games are typically called avatars.

But it hints at a spiritual side.

And so when I began to look at the various religions of the world,

I realized they're all saying the same thing, that the physical world isn't real.

And we can talk more about that if you want.

And then I also looked at quantum physics and I realized, oh, it's saying that the world isn't really physical either.

It's mostly empty space and inconsistent information.

It's just light.

But there was a guy named John Wheeler

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