Rizwan Virk

And I said, well, one of the key assumptions here is that the world is information.

And he said, yeah, that's not controversial in physics at all anymore.

Like it might have been once upon a time.

But then the second part, the second assumption that comes up in simulation theory is that

the world is rendered like a video game and that the world is a hoax.

It's some kind of a hoax, like it's not really real.

That's the other assumption that physicists don't necessarily agree with, but that's the other part of simulation theory.

Well, they don't disagree necessarily that it doesn't physically exist.

They just disagree that how is it that this thing that is information gets rendered for us, right?

It's like we're talking different languages for them, right?

Even though quantum mechanics is telling us all this weird stuff, they're still, I think, often taking a classical view, classical mechanical view of the world, of physical objects moving around, and that's all it is, right?

Yeah.

So, you know, there's arguments that people make against the idea that we live in a simulation.

And the first is, you know, the same argument that, you know, there was a famous guy named Bishop Berkeley.

The city of Berkeley is named after him.

I think it was George Berkeley.

He was a bishop in the UK.

And he came up with this idea of idealism, this philosophical idea that the world doesn't really exist.

It's only in the mind.

And there was this other guy, I think it was Johnson, who said, how do you refute that?