Rizwan Virk

And so they use that metaphor to try to describe something, which is the second part of the idea of the simulation hypothesis.

The first idea was the world is information that gets rendered.

And the second part is the world is some kind of a hoax that we are a part of for whatever reason.

And so in the traditions, over time, they've tried to update these metaphors.

And they've tried to use new technology to describe the metaphors because that's how we can, as modern people, we can understand it.

So about 100 years ago, there was a guy named Swami Yogananda.

He came over from India.

He was like one of the first Indian yogi swamis to really live in the U.S.,

And he wrote a book called Autobiography of a Yogi.

I don't know if you ever read it.

Oh, you read it.

Oh, great.

Yeah.

In the 60s, it was like the book, one of those books that everybody passed around.

Yeah.

And Steve Jobs, you know, it was his favorite book.

At his funeral, he gave everybody or his memorial service, he gave everybody a little brown box.

They went home and opened the box and they found a copy of Autobiography of a Yogi in there.

But so Yogananda came over about 100 years ago and he tried to update this old metaphor.

And what was new technology back in the 1920s?