Rizwan Virk

And I said, well, you sure you want me to write this book?

You know, I'm an entrepreneur and a computer scientist.

They said, yeah, because we want you to use your technology metaphors like the simulation I thought this is.

to explain this stuff and so if Yogananda were alive today and I wrote this in my new book called Wisdom of a Yogi I would what he would say is it's like a movie but we're the actors and we're also the audience and we have a script and we're kind of playing the script but we can change the script if we want what does that sound like it sounds like a massively multiplayer online role-playing game you know

So I think that metaphor is a great way to try to explain this idea of the soul and the body within the religious traditions.

That's the RPG version of the simulation hypothesis.

Well, so the way that I like to think of it, and, you know, originally I was just kind of putting these concepts.

Right, because it gets back to how you think about it.

If it's an NPC game, it would freak people out, right?

Right.

We're just NPCs.

This is like the materialist kind of view of the world.

Right, right.

Which is, while the computer's on, you're here.

Computer gets shut off.

Excuse me.

Everybody's gone.

But in the RPG version...

It's a little bit different, right?

So when you play a game, you know, when I was a kid, we used to play Dungeons and Dragons when I was a teenager.