Rizwan Virk

Yeah, just in terms of how many worlds they want to keep track of.

But now, I mean, you could say, okay, we're going to use 128 bits, which suddenly gives you two, not double the number, but two to the 128.

And these numbers are eventually get to the point where there's more worlds than there are physical particles in our universe as these numbers grow exponentially.

And so effectively you can create what seems to be an infinite world, but it's not because the whole world is not rendered.

Now, this is one of the key points that I try to make in the book.

And the simulation hypothesis, the subtitle is, an MIT computer scientist shows why AI, quantum physics, and Eastern mystics agree we're in a video game.

Now, the quantum physics part of it is the whole observer effect, which most people have heard of.

The easiest way to understand it is, I mean, it came from the double slit experiment where if light is a particle, it would go through either one of the slits or the other slit.

Can't go through both, right?

If it's a particle, you can just go through one of those.

Another way to think about it is Schrodinger's cat, which was the thought experiment.

Yeah.

So there's a box with some poison in it.

And after an hour, there's a 50% chance the cat is alive and a 50% chance the cat is dead because the poison might be released or not.

And so common sense tells us the cat is either alive...

Or it's dead.

We just don't know because we haven't looked in the box.

Now, what's weird about quantum mechanics is that it's telling us that the cat is in a state of superposition, meaning it's in both of those states.

It's both alive and dead until somebody observes it or somebody measures it.

And so that doesn't make any sense from a comment.