Are We Living in an Ancestor Simulation? ft. Neil deGrasse Tyson | Space Time

[@gojida2207]

Meanwhile, some alien civilization is probably thinking: "the simulations are becoming self aware"

[@spacealien2174]

Gojida yup, that's our Mother civilization :)

[@redbeam_]

"the pizza is aggressive"

[@beaconrider]

I've seen that movie.

[@stalworth1]

hkistreet google's ai started to show signs of awareness ,google unplugged the project.

[@appledough3843]

Gojida If I were the alien I'd freak out that they figured out my existence and reset them lol

[@aaronsorensen9499]

I saw the full interview with NDT and, Matt, you are one of the most patient people I've ever seen. NDT interrupts you nonstop and you maintain your composure like a champ.

[@markhoward5240]

I agree and I also like listening to NDT but I did not like how he could not keep his hands to himself

[@somefuckstolemynick]

NDT gonna NDT

[@pscyking]

Sounds like every "discussion" involving NDT I've ever seen.

[@EduardoMartinez-fk2pv]

NDT is a science communicator, not a science listener

[@tybogit]

Uhhh how else are you supposed to get your point across?! You’re supposed to talk over them every time they start to open their mouth. So in their mind your words become their thoughts! Duh!! It’s called ‘Quantum Psychological Debate Theory’

[@samhayes-astrion]

If we're living in a simulation, I demand access to the developer console.

[@Ytremz]

Would probably fry your brain to comprehend the complexity

[@buffdaddy0100]

"Computer, arch!"

Try using "sudo".

[@BachikoiBabi]

player.additem 000001 player.enablegodmode

[@stove5035]

IDSPISPOPD

[@Shogun1982]

If my user can see this, please enter: Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A.

[@jelordgulle9022]

HAHAHAH damn

[@jelordgulle9022]

it should be Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A. START.

[@AB-wu1om]

Wats the joke 😂😂😂

[@kevinlogan8374]

Good old konami code. Unfortunately life is pay to win or buy a DLC

[@elephant_888]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@nickfriend3629]

"All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream." Edgar Allan Poe, 1809~1849.

[@justinakers3196]

Nick Friend I’ve never heard that. That’s an awesome quote

[@laserus3333]

"I Am" an unfinished thought in the mind of God. Eye 1965...?

[@derekm424]

" I am a dream inside a dream, the more I wake the more I sleep, you'll understand when I'm dead." -Marilyn Manson, song title: the reflecting God.

[@jhwheuer]

Awe. Ow you reminded me of Alan Parsons Project

[@ktasantana931]

He only lived to 40 ! : o

[@MrTigerlore]

I’m an NPC?! Ahh, so that explains why I repeat the same dialogue, and sometimes walk into walls.

[@MrTigerlore]

Richie Rich 😂😂😂

[@NotEpoch]

lol. love it :)

[@theway5258]

Tiger H. Lore You are very advanced NPC in a physical computer with a Universe size.

[@Suralin0]

My man! *walk sprite glitches through a tree*

[@namewasstolenstresslevel2111]

i think u need a patch to fix this stupididy.

[@buddyzee]

wow Neil loves the sound of his own voice

[@SuperSurvivalman]

Hahaha yaa

[@arewecrazyyet]

Most people who make millions of dollars from speaking owe a great deal to their voice and love the sound. It sounds like "Cha-Ching!"

[@zemorph42]

I bet he would not like his recorded voice nearly as much; it sounds very different from the outside.

[@50iraqidinar]

Im guessing a lot of people who get paid to speak for a living do. Do what you love!

[@semaj_5022]

I've always just gotten the vibe from him that he gets so excited and carried away by these topics and isn't exactly socially..adept. but it can definitely come off as aggressive and arrogant. I think he's mostly harmless though

[@shadow105720]

The problem with this is that even if we are a simulation, there is still something out there beyond this that is real. Whether we are in the prime existence or some iterative offspring, something has to be the original. No matter how many turtles it goes down, one of them has to be the bottom.

[@Upstreamprovider]

Someone else thinks clearly...I can't be alone.... :)

[@UncaAlbyGmail]

why is that a problem?

[@Erinnn379]

@@UncaAlbyGmail Because infinite regresses are insufficient to explain existence.

[@UncaAlbyGmail]

@@Erinnn379 yah and you're worried about this, why?

[@dallyh.2960]

gay turtles are responsible for existence confirmed 2019

[@Soldr4hire]

Whoever is playing me absolutely sucks. Or he's playing hard mode.

[@springmage6321]

I think mine is AFK! 😆

[@fabslyrics]

Vanity built-in

[@Congruesome]

UpDownUpDownLeftRightLeftRightABStart!

[@beawarenow8287]

Mines a noob

[@maddiebyfaith]

That player is your true self. Meditate and you'll awaken. You'll become aware once you figure out that you are not your Ego.

[@sunnychowdary7506]

Dear operator , Please code my life better !

[@MikahTheMan]

maybe your playing on difficult mode

[@andrewjohnston4811]

choices

[@joramarentved4980]

Me, too, operator, pls. take care of it, so I can find out etc., Peace, 'Jartuferatu,' Tachyons, 0056965056701, she doesn't connect till tomorrow afternoon, Sgo., Chile.

[@MrWeareone777]

Code me to win the lottery . You hear me you teenage Alien fuck that's playing my character.

[@UncaAlbyGmail]

@@MrWeareone777 Right, ask for a BIG favor then INSULT the only guy who might be able to grant it for you! That makes PERFECT sense!

[@seancannon3960]

Boltzmann simulation. The computer running the simulation in which we live randomly formed during a severe dip in entropy.

[@valiroime]

More likely a software glitch caused by a power spike

[@chooky4626]

I wish whoever plays as me would buy some dlc...

[@foxnebula145]

i wish mine was upgrading Luck instead of Intelligence

[@dogestranding5047]

foxnebula145 Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.

[@asgardiangod23]

Dlc me some space flight tech😢

[@kostam.1113]

Social life dlc would be nice.

[@trusso6117]

@ Sheogorath, 45 got the cheat code for life. It's called daddy's money!

[@MadGammon]

The entire universe does not need to be rendered in a simulation -- only the part that is being observed or interacted with!

[@JustinL614]

jaredfocose Just like a video game..the world is rendered within your sight range

[@gmanjapan]

When you observe some part all of causation from the last time you observed it has to be calculated. To get that correct requires running the sim for the entire universe.

[@pentium0077]

You are correct. Only the view point of the players is rendered. And you are the only player.

[@BenjaminCronce]

Causality does not seem to travel faster than light. The speed of light is the speed of causality. Light travels at the fastest rate that cause-and-effect allows in our Universe.

[@bozo5632]

+Gleb Kolpakov - I'm aware of entanglement, and I "understand" the weird quantum behaviors, or at least the layman's version. The superposition EFFECT is surely real, but it may not really be a matter of one thing being in two places, since it's possible to do away with things entirely, and it's no problem at all to have one field in two places. Action at a distance remains spooky, but now it's fields responding instantly instead of particles. Or that's my understanding of it. I don't have nearly 1% of the math or knowledge to assess which theory is really better, but my ignorant, intuitive preference is for QFT.

[@BallerDan53]

Could be that the universe is simulated, but we aren't the focus of the simulation. What if the creators don't know we exist or don't care, but they just want to see how these balls of rock and gases react to each other and we are merely an anomaly within their scientific research.

[@bottlekruiser]

They will probably notice the balls of gas getting covered with clouds of weird spinning thingies

[@hurrdurr3615]

then why bother putting us in there, requiring vast amounts of computational power that is not needed for the planets. In terms of information a human brain is way bigger than anything else in the universe.

[@lindayoung3228]

They didn't deliberately put us in there. We are an accident, like a fart in church, and everybody looks around wondering, "Where did that come from?"

[@darnell8897]

+Hurr Durr CarpRunner is saying we weren't "put in there", rather the resolution of the simulation is of such molecular detail that phenomenon like biological life and eventually humanity crop up from time to time. Even while, perhaps, being a computationally expensive annoyance, to try and prune us from the simulation would skew the results.

[@1invag]

battlekruiser he's not suggesting they wouldn't be aware of the existence of life, just that they maybr don't care as it's not what they're running the simulation for. A bye product

[@khakimzhanmiras]

Hey ancestor, this is all meta and all, but the diarrhea is unnecessary

[@theworldsmostgiantDr]

Underrated gem of a comment right here.

[@Daavlot]

Crying :'D

[@silentwisdom7025]

That's good 😊

[@colorfulrain100]

Can confirm. Currently on the toilet as we speak.

[@rowanrivers3418]

and the toes LIKE WHY

[@itzkaio6802]

That explains why i always lag when i talk to my crush

[@quaidoralious4181]

Genius

[@andrewjohnston4811]

choices

[@JazzFlop212]

this comment is under every single video about the simulation theory.

[@JazzFlop212]

@@quaidoralious4181 It's genius to steal a comment?

[@rakemash]

Nah its an actual feature just try to up your charisma stat

[@EvenTheDogAgrees]

Alright, some remarks, off the top of my head: 1) We are not in a position to judge the required processing power to simulate our universe with regards to the available processing power in the real universe. We can't assume it is similar to ours: we might merely be a simplified model, but their laws of physics might also be entirely different from ours. For all we know, the real universe might not even be physical in nature, so how can we judge how feasible it would be in this external universe to simulate ours? The Eternal Dreamer might just have a vast mind capable of very complicated dreams. Apart from that, even if this was a "down to the individual quark or whatever" simulation, just because we perceive it in realtime doesn't mean it actually runs in realtime. For all we know, the real universe is eternally stable, and this program is a simulation of a universe that isn't, running at enormously reduced speed. 2) If we're in a simulation, it doesn't necessarily follow that you lot are real. For all I know, I'm the only "real" mind here (I call it a Meretzky Brain), while you're all simple "bots" without sentience. Placed here for me to interact with, totally oblivious of the fact that none of you are "real". That cuts down drastically on the required processing power, and means the universe does not need to be simulated precisely enough so that all inhabitants experience it the same: you guys don't perceive anything, and when I ask you how you perceive it, the program has you respond consistent with my world model. 3) Neil's "for their entertainment" theory regarding all the shake-ups and disasters is amusing in a Bill Hicks or George Carlin kind of way (and those are good ways), but nonsensical if you really think about it. We put that kind of stuff into our simulations, because it reflects (although it may exaggerate) what we experience in our world. So it's not unthinkable that they put this in their simulation because, well, it reflects their reality. If they're a simulation as well, extrapolate upwards until you reach the outer shell: they put it in their simulation because it happens in their world as well. Therefore, this stuff is plausible without attributing it to "someone putting it in there for their entertainment". As such, the presence of such events does not constitute an argument in favour nor against the simulation theory. 4) The whole numbers game is based on some assumptions that aren't necessarily true. But the video touched on the Fermi paradox, which is where I was going with this as well. 5) The idea that the universe must be simulated to sufficient detail to convince us that it's real is problematic as well. Any universe we inhabit automatically feels "real" to us, because in absence of other experiences, how would we contrast it to what's actually real? Again, we have no basis for assuming anything beyond our universe, if it turns out it is a simulation.

[@Serotonindude]

i was just about to write what you wrote in point 2) ... except, that it's me, who got the only "real' mind :D

[@EvenTheDogAgrees]

Of course you would. Otherwise the simulation wouldn't be convincing. ;)

[@Serotonindude]

funny, the simulation computer just started a sub-routine to calculate your answer to my response :D

[@TheBitanian]

Thanks for posting these points, now I don't have to! :D

[@EvenTheDogAgrees]

Bit you're welcome. Sorry I couldn't express myself as concisely as you would've. ;-)

[@harrkev]

Science: The universe did not have a creator. Also science: The universe has a creator, lives in his mom's basement and has Cheeto dust on his fingers.

[@barryjenkins7109]

he said the simulated universe was created by a snot nosed kid not the actual universe

[@47and28]

he's a bozo for saying so.

[@joaquinel]

Perfectly ok, why not. I just dont go for the Nintendo theory.

[@beurteilung713]

Yeah because science isn't one giant homogenous entity of knowledge. There are scientists. Scientists have different theories and studies. These are compiled together to try and piece the puzzle of the universe together based on which ones are more plausible. It is also not set in stone either. Things like the Out Of Africa theory are nearly being debunked because of much older bones being found in Asia. No where in commonly accepted scientific explanations for the universe does it say there is no creator of the universe. It simply states how we think the universe begun based on studies.

[@GlaciusTS]

The more likely possibility is that it is created by some machine. If you have computers that powerful, you are probably advanced enough that you’ve done away with natural bodies and opted for something more advanced. Assuming of course that our Universe is modeled after a real one. We could be living in a simulated “possible” universe as well.

[@ericvelasquez1282]

I've long been a Neil deAss Tyson anti-fan but really love the way Matt present scientific information. Going through a few comments below I can see that I'm not the only one.

[@SalimonuDavid]

"Holy shit, we made them too smart! They're on to us!!!"

[@omkarparopkari]

David Salimonu they don't need to 'make' us, if they are simulating this universe. We are made by the computer in such a case, inside the simulation.

[@amanw9233]

David Salimonu hahahahahahahhhHahahahaahahahahagahhhahahaahahahahhaa best 1

[@AbsurdAsparagus]

or, "holy shit bro this universe is 13 billion years old and it just now figured shit out" "aw fuck forgot about that one, yeah well turn it off tomorrow."

[@DudeWhoSaysDeez]

The people who made our simulation are also probably a simulation

[@Reragi]

"Oh man! These devs are hilarious! It's like they know theyre just a simulation!"

[@atotheg7652]

Immediately checked the comments about Neil grabbing his arm. That was very “I’m more important and better then you” move.

[@mjkittredge]

That's very cynical. I think as fellow scientists and intellectuals they have great mutual respect

[@atotheg7652]

Agreed. They respect each other. But grabbing someone’s wrist and shushing them isn’t respectful.

[@JB-1138]

Neil deGrasse Tyson has to shut him up because he's making too much sense.

[@JB-gi5ph]

I don't think he's trying to big-time him. You can always tell when Neil gets excited, he goes into touch-talker-mode. It's hilarious when the person is out of reach, and he's still reaching out to them. These are some of his best moments, reminds me of an excited kid.

[@annief2239]

@@galamento9977 exactly

[@maidy199]

Meanwhile, the alien who created the simulation is watching this video and laughing :D

[@dario1w894]

Mohamed Abdelhack maybe you are the alien...

[@maidy199]

I can tell you.... but then I'll have to delete you...

[@speedoflight33]

Mohamed Abdelhack their xbox live and psn account must be unlimited ... they can dowload any game. wtf !

[@galaxytraveler5779]

Why would the alien be laughing? Wouldn't it be more surprised that we figured it out?

[@utkarshgupta2943]

GalaxyTraveler if he is worried..this wouldn't be happening

[@tsarmi9864]

It gives me anxiety to watch this stuff, but helps me open the mind- understand more possibilities even if this isn't the correct answer, it expands consciousness to new realms.

[@cjuare123]

It makes me want to get out of here.

[@Aklifedesign]

So well put. Even if I disagree, even if it isn’t correct ….it expands my mind. That’s Meta👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾✨💫⚡️

[@octavianova1300]

When you think about it, the quantized nature of the laws of physics on their most basic level sorta resembles digitization

[@softgoodsint]

Agree - ya nailed it.

[@chaytonhurlow840]

No, digitization resembles the quantized nature of physics

[@jackkoffin1]

I have a hangover and have spent all day in bed- sleeping, watching KZbin, and wrapped up in mundane thoughts. Why would anything in the universe bother simulating a day like that?

[@Psiros]

Player is AFK. :)

[@jackkoffin1]

Psiros lol!

[@brandonstilwell8187]

If you're running an ancestor simulator, then it's simulating the entirety of humanity. Most likely there were bums in the original universe too.

[@hypegamer347]

I personally think the main reason for a simulation to be created is creative entertainment and innovation. Think about it, there's a point of which creativity and innovation reaches diminishing returns, and that could slow down progress for highly developed societies . A way around that would be a observable simulation based on set parameters, so that it is just right, tweaked to be compatible with said population. Products we create in the simulation are then advertised in the simulators world. Our design for vehicles, space ships, (both past and present) our Music and etc. Its a unlimited creativity box.

[@xeftones]

Im doing that exact thing too

[@travisboatner]

The computing power would be less if it didn’t actually simulate every single interaction of every single particle. It could have a wave function of probability and only decide to simulate the specific interactions if we were to attempt to measure it. It wouldn’t have to compute areas we weren’t observing until we actually attempted to observe it.

[@Treviisolion]

Though there are some limitations with that as well. Simulating even a modern computer with all the errors it has to deal with from quantum physics (and yes we have observed these enough to know that the way we design our chips has a strong impact on what errors we have and their likelihood of happening) requires a nearly fully accurate simulation of quantum mechanics on a macroscopic scale. Not to mention human brains which are probably at least partially magnifying quantum effects across the brain, or smell which relies on quantum effects to work. While there is a lot that could be simulated at a lower fidelity and be unobservable, as our computational power increases exponentially, the lower bound of computational power needed to compute everything that we observe at a fidelity level high enough to be indistinguishable from a full fidelity simulation by us increases exponentially as well. If we humans are the central focal point of some ancestor simulation, I do not expect our simulation to last long, or to have been lasting long. Though whether long in this case is a few decades, centuries, millennia, or few million years (and in the latter we’re probably near the very tail end as it’s not too improbable to find ourselves as part of the last seven to eight billion humans to exist out of the hundred or so estimates to ever live, or be simulated in this case), I’m uncertain about as it depends on the level of computational power our creators have access to.

[@HaxxorElite]

I love your comment

[@10418]

Double slid experiment… I see what you did there.

[@halolord8212120]

It could be algorithmic. In principle we can already do this, obviously to a much smaller degree. Nothing is stored or computed until observed. Once observed, the algorithm determines with equal precision to reality what must be there and occurring. Everything seems to be both persistent and evolving since time is a variable of the algorithm. This would drastically reduce computational requirements of any simulated universe.

[@mikkel715]

@Travis And so it is. 💯

[@kennyrosenyc]

You don't need a computer the size of the universe to simulate the entire universe. You only need a computer that can simulate whatever aspect of the universe the viewer is experiencing at a particular point in time for every human on Earth. That is how video games work. The stuff that's out of view doesn't exist as anything other than data, and only then when needed.

[@martinmc0950]

Isn’t this exactly what’s demonstrated when a subatomic particle is left unobserved? It exists only as a probability, which then collapses when observed

[@kennyrosenyc]

@@martinmc0950 I guess. I've worked in game design and we have what are called LODs (or Levels of Detail). Looking at the Moon from the earth, you would be presented with a back drop that has a picture of the Moon. As you move closer, you would get a disc with, basically, an animated texture. Move closer and you get a hemisphere. Move closer and you get a sphere. Land and you get only what would be visible from your perspective. Nothing else would actually exist as anything other than data. And all the changes would occur in a fraction of a second. So, the world outside your room doesn't exist until you enter it. And even then, only what you can see exists. So, unless you're observing 'everything' then you don't need 'everything'. You just need the ability to feed raw data to the observer.

[@realzachfluke1]

@@kennyrosenyc I had no idea that's what LOD stood for hahahaha. I've been aware of the term for a decade, yet only *now,* thanks to stumbling upon your comment at the right time, do I know what it stands for. 😂😂 Thank you! The actual substance of your comment was great too, so there ya go lol

[@enshk79]

Exactly. The philosophical trope of does a tree make a sound when it falls if no one around is nullified! The answer: No! It’s not even there to fall!

[@haanjamiis]

Yes, I'm surprised that many smart people seems to not understand that. You actually don't need to simulate that much, especially in micro scale.

[@stefantheconqueror8710]

6:45 But can it run Crysis?

[@happygimp0]

When you can run it in the simulation, then yes.

[@happygimp0]

@Skanda bhairava If you make a simulation, and in this simulation there is a computer that runs Crysis, then the simulation can and does run Crysis. It is like a computer that emulates a old game console that runs a old game. Then you can say the computer runs that game even if the computer needs the help of a emulator.

[@averagemilffan]

But can it run Minecraft RTX

[@bonaventureduprat9416]

I clicked the ad because of how good this content is

[@StopChangingUsernamesYouTube]

How to know you're in a simulation: Your toilet becomes a fountain weekly, your neighbors are doing pushups in your front yard, and your bathroom door is gone.

[@BouArmy]

WTF

[@Theraot]

I began to suspect when the mail man said "my man" one too many times... >.>

[@DudeWhoSaysDeez]

Sounds like people in Alabama

[@KamiRecca]

William Shreckengost, i see you have been to my hometown. Za woka genava. Dag Dag.

[@xiaoyu88]

I need to stop watching these videos before I go to sleep

[@beckyzwhite]

I'm growing more and more convinced that all of this is a simulation. I just wish I could get access to the settings page.

[@roshnik5137]

It's scary

[@danny99000l]

@@roshnik5137 Just use Ockham's razor untill further notice.

[@jamesbentonticer4706]

Lol me too

[@EmpyreanLightASMR]

I just found out how to turn on Dark Mode

[@justinlavigne9814]

Psychedelics.

[@norwoodbuilder7529]

I think Neil is smoking too much of deGrasse

[@lucidanecdote683]

Ha. Can't believe it took 7 months for someone to laugh at this comment.

[@Pablo-xh5ft]

I've just seen the video and laughed out loud at this comment.

[@NotEpoch]

lol if he smoked grass he wouldnt think of stuff this stupid. he literally told the world the earth is pear shaped, and yet we have supposed "photos" of a perfectly spherical earth from nasa. the guy is an actor just like bill nye nothing to see here.

[@burraq1.032]

Degrasse best weed in the world your joke was funny

[@enaid5373]

nah, a perfectly legitimate philosophical paradox.. basically the same one we still have't figured out a completely satisfactory answer for, hundreds of years after it was posed

[@coreydouglas5764]

YOU BEAT CANCER AND WENT BACK TO WORK AT THE CARPET STORE??

[@kouchuujin]

corey douglas lmao great reference

[@patstaysuckafreeboss8006]

He's taking Roy off the grid!

[@26gutshot]

BOO!!

[@robbiehernandez8019]

Lmao

[@unfeelingss5178]

😂

[@vinayk7]

If we are truly being simulated then there is no meaning of time for us. What would be like million years for us , would be just a few seconds for "them" . It's much like over-speeding a video game where the hero,villain,clocks,bounties all move and generate faster with respect to you but for them it's the same , we'd have no way of detecting the speed change.Funnier is the fact that if they were to pause this simulation for a bit and then resume it , even that would be undetectable by us.

[@cherrydragon3120]

Vinay K pausing simulations... like when we sleep? ;)

[@vinayk7]

Not exactly.When we're asleep we still dream and experience reality, by "pause" I mean the computer code that is responsible for the AI's consciousness isn't executing anymore ( it's just a program code that ultimately depends on the CPU for its life) without CPU it won't be "alive" or feel its own existence.Once simulation is resumed again all the previous memories are fed into and its code being run would feel all normal to him.It's much like _Last Thursdayism_ because we can't trust our memories in a simulation

[@TheRamboss]

Vinay K What is time?

[@olehusgaard906]

A pause in the simulation would be undetectable to us because time is also simulated.

[@SophiaAphrodite]

Days, weeks, and years are not actual measurements of time but distance traveled. Seconds, minutes, and hours are all representations of time AND distance. It is why time and space cannot be separated, one cannot exist without the other. Days, weeks, and years are all subjective. Seconds, minutes, and hours are objective.

[@TheCornerCaseMan]

If this is a simulation, then I wish whoever built my character didn't take all the mental illness disadvantages at character creation.

[@radzmpofu9974]

The Corner Case Man you n me both bro

[@Casey-dy2oo]

Exactly what I was thinking when I watched this.

[@danny99000l]

They only did that to see how you'd react.

[@jamesbentonticer4706]

Very much agreed.

[@smoozerish]

Haha……great comment……me too

[@xbbjdf8]

If someone is playing my life as a simulation then someone needs to go and check on them. I might have killed them with boredom.

[@deadbabybuffet]

These aliens love to watch primates masturbate

[@mailboxxy]

Ancestor simulation. Robots learning how to be human = our lives

[@PeptideScienceInstitute]

not really. its the overall picture and time could flow differently outside of this

[@JoshDisher]

What if "you" are replaying you from a point in the future? I like to think that when we die we simply take off our VR device and decide what year we'll "respawn" and try again. Subjective time is amazing...

[@TerryProthero]

@@deadbabybuffet I was going to argue against my life being a simulation until you said that. Now it all makes sense.

[@Marconius6]

Would also solve the Fermi Paradox. Just saying.

[@cjbants17]

Did Neil at any point let someone else finish what they wanted to say!?

[@JustinL614]

Cj Okimo Neil is smart when it comes to cosmology but when it comes to proper etiqutte in social situations he's dumb as a brick

[@thegatorhator6822]

JustinL614 And Politics, my god his political tweets are beyond the level you can even call retarded.

[@Oogidahboogidah]

Cj Okimo no because he's a fuckwit

[@kickinon]

Does it matter? the people hes talking to shouldn't be given the time of day with a scientist, they're fucking imbeciles and say a lot of idiotic shit.

[@kickinon]

Lol I went to your profile sky and it is so fucking cringe. You're a living meme.

[@davizitopa7252]

The simulation hypothesis is one of the interpretations of quantum-mechanics. To save on computing power, the universe behaves just like a video game: it only renders what's being observed. Here in my room alone, the simulation algorithm clips off all the things that I'm not experiencing. From the quantum phenomena all around me to the inside of drawers and boxes, those things only exist in compressed statistical states unless I make an observation (like shaking a box to see if it has something in it or not)

[@jayyyzeee6409]

It's apparent that Neil got his fill of coffee that day.

[@Mrkevi123]

We're in a simulation, in a simulation, in a simulation.

[@harry-eo7xe]

Joao Rocha nah you are the only sad thing here

[@BothHands1]

Simuception. Incepulation?

[@KlingonCaptain]

What about mods?

[@nneeerrrd]

in ejaculation

[@saulw6270]

Kevin Hinojosa what if a simulation simulated a simulation that can escape their simulation and gad the power to de simulate all simulations

[@Arnsteel634]

Are we living in a dream. This question has been asked for thousands of years.

[@kjk7611]

Jennings Cunningham Ever since some cave-man woke up from a vi vid dream & wondered if he'd woken up.😫

[@chronikillogical2807]

Yes

[@keepinmahprivacy9754]

"We are like the dreamer who dreams, and then lives inside the dream."

[@keepinmahprivacy9754]

@James Howard Ah, I was just quoting David Lynch from "Twin Peaks: the Return", but I think he was actually quoting Plato there. So it's a very old idea indeed and probably one that every culture wrestles with. One thing to think about though, that we learn from computer simulations, but also through our dreams, is that if there is some type of "reality recursion" going on, it seems it must be directional. I can dream of being in a place I know from the "real" world, but my dream will never be a fully accurate replication of that place. Similarly, I can design a computer simulation of something in the real world but I can never simulate it completely accurately. Computers themselves are an attempt to simulate at least some aspects of human thinking, and again, there is a loss of fidelity and the computer can't really duplicate the way our minds work. So I think it's like how entropy and time have "arrows", if there is recursion, then that too has an "arrow", where each level gets simpler and simpler until you must reach a point where you cannot simulate anything of any significance or complexity anymore.

[@Trekari]

Is there a simulation where Neil doesn't interrupt everyone all the time?

[@rtoma1974]

Scientifically impossible.

[@matpsycic]

1. World is not deterministic. Everyone assumes that if a simulation is created it has to determine all possible operations. Not really. It just has to have the capability to calculate such operations. The result of the operations can be anything. 2. Why do we assume that some kind of sentient form has to create a simulation? The simulations could be self replicating. We are a simulation that creates AI in a simulation which in turn creates another simulation and so on. There is no beginning and no end. It just goes on and on.

[@iLordNoob]

Neil deGrasse Tyson is touchy as hell isn't he, jesus christ

[@patsox2004]

It's a New York thing...

[@MixinUK]

Xavier H Most geniuses are flawed... But it's okay.

[@iLordNoob]

Na grabbing people randomly like at 3:00 is just super uncomfortable and rude, no real excuses lmao.

[@JonathanPoppele]

I enjoy this series immensely and deeply appreciate the time and care you give to presenting extremely complex topics is such an accessible way. This particular episode, however, seems to stray out of the realm of science and into the realm of magic as we muse about creating digital golems. Estimates of the computing power required to simulate the behavior of the brain are, at best, wild guesses that have no basis in modern neuro-physiology. A few points to consider: Researchers have had a complete map of the cardiac ganglion of the lobster since at least the 1970s. Although this ganglion has just 7 neurons, neuroscientists have been unable to develop a complete model of its behavior. The exact relationships between signal inputs and signal outputs remain a mystery. More recently, the entire nervous system of the roundworm, Caenorhabditis elegans, has been mapped in near perfect detail. The nervous system of this tiny creature contains just 302 neurons. While the map has been extremely useful for research, it has given little insight into the worms behavior. As C. elegans researcher Oliver Hobert of Columbia put it in a 2012 article in Scientific American, "it's like a road map that tells you where cars can drive, but does not tell you when or where cars are actually driving." Nor does it tell you about traffic dynamics. Neurotransmitters do not function like the binary switches of a computer. They create complexities of behavior that we do not fully understand, even in the simplest of systems. If we cannot yet model the behavior of a system containing 7 neurons, or of an entire nervous system consisting of just 302 neurons, what is the logic behind estimating the computing power needed to model a system containing billions? What is the logic in assuming that such a thing is even possible? If such logic exists, it is independent of experimental results. Even if we grant these wild speculations, we still encounter a more fundamental problem. We do not know what consciousness is. Neuroscientists refer to consciousness as an "emergent property" of the brain. It is a property that does not belong in any of the component parts, and likely cannot be predicted or explained through a reductionist model of the systems components. But more honestly, "emergent property" here is code for "we have no idea." Neuroscientists, philosophers, physicists and others have speculated throughout history on the nature of consciousness, but no one has yet developed a test that can detect whether or not consciousness is present. I know that I am conscious, because I experience consciousness. I have no way of verifying whether or not you are conscious. I just assume that you are because your behavior seems so much like mine. Even if we could model the behavior of a nervous system--which we cannot do--how can we speculate about the computing power required to simulate consciousness if we don't even know what consciousness is?

[@orchdork775]

I wonder if people in this supposed future ever, "plug in," to the simulation to interact with their simulated ancestors. That has fascinating implications. Maybe Matt is one of the original observers and is just popping in the simulation every now and then to give us hints 😂

[@danielr.]

Oh hey, hello. Existencial crisis, here we meet again.

[@cris-vv1pn]

And?

[@cris-vv1pn]

Hello dude had to look it up haha how's the world treating you today

[@donkeykong4983]

Daniel Reinhardt SAME!!!!!!!!!! I’m having one right now too!!!

[@ChrisCross-nq9ed]

"Hello, darkness, my old friend, I've come to talk with you again."

[@culwin]

It doesn't have to be a simulation to all lifeforms. It only has to be a simulation to you.

[@stebarg]

culwin you are talking to yourself.

[@sign543]

Aaron H. - Yep. It’s unfalsifiable. It’s almost a pointless exercise, if it weren’t so interesting to ponder.

[@eddiebrown192]

I’m not real .

[@thisaccountisdead9060]

Like Neil deGrasse Tyson, I pretty much cry every day. So I hope the Google masters studying my virtual brain are having fun.

[@giocommentary]

2:45 just some food for thought, the Dark Souls franchise does this amazingly well. You're inside a world, as just one of millions of others and the world is uncaring about you, as you go you create your own opinions/stories/facts and observations. the game doesn't teach you how to evade the thing around the corner, it expects you to learn it, there is no big overarching storyline you create your own story as you go creating unique strong memories of those self made moments. Its these attributes that makes this franchise so amazing to play and experience, its the best a videogame can offer, a experience that you create yourself, like the 4/5 year old you playing with toys. idk why i decided to make this comment, it just sprung into my head at this line in the video, and me being able to convey this message will probably pass within minutes to so i decided to write it down.

[@mcanepa6787]

I love Dark Souls, and have to admit I never expected to see it brought up in a PBS Space Time comment section. Nice observation!

[@cn6519]

Minecraft is similar.. multiple people interconnected virtually, but all creating their own special seeded experience..

[@giocommentary]

@@cn6519 yeah good one!

[@comandante_dd210]

6:42 so... was Douglas Adams right the whole time? What if WE are the supercomputer, built to calculate the question to an already given answer... or any other purpose?

[@genghisgfunk]

It is 42 dude , the answer is always 42 .. lol

[@IgorDz]

6:42 This could not be a coincidence!

[@utl94]

But how come the 6?

[@comandante_dd210]

What do you get if you multiply 6 by 9? ^^

[@Andrew0you0tube]

+Comandante_DD orgassm

[@cks2020693]

The basis of anything you are saying is depended on if the real world runs on the same laws of everything as our world/universe. For example, as you are calculating how much computing power it needs to run a simulation of such, you are doing it based on our understanding of how computer works and how much power would it need in this universe. Thus doesn't mean that outside of this simulation, in the real universe, there are no such things as planets and stars, a potato sized computer is powerful enough to do such simulation 10 billion times over, and our universe is just a world imagined by a video game designer as everything in this universe is just his fantasized reality. Just as in decades or centuries people would've made super vivid VR games where people live in a virtual reality that they can manipulate and use magics and at the same time, and everything is constructed by magic as well. Now if an actual person is born into knowing only everything inside that world, do you think he should just assume that magic also governs the reality outside of the simulation and you would need certain amount of mana potency to build a magical simulation and etc. So put it simply, I think your premises of this whole assumption is paradoxical

[@emilymeek-muir5792]

Andy Fu oof

[@SpydersByte]

this. exactly.

[@jerrylharbin]

I DONT NEED MANA NIGGA !! I’m sorry I just wanted to say that.....I’ll let myself out

[@J0krswy1d]

Lol.. I remember doing that in SimCity way back when. Throwing in disasters to liven things up.

[@TheZeedler]

PBS is so good. You guys do an amazing job. Thank you so much. I'd be lost without some of these videos.

[@davidstoyanoff]

Suppose I post a video on the internet today. My understanding is that it's out there as long as there's an internet. So let's suppose some kid in the basement in a super intelligent civilization runs a simulation and post it on their version of the internet. He sets it going and then edits in a while, gets bored and runs another one. Repeat and you have a Multiverse, where each simulation continues for as long as it can survive.

[@Brighim100]

To support the idea of a simulation, many of the tools that are used in programming a videogame, are being discovered in physics. An example of this would be rendering. Video games are programmed in such sway that only the part of a videogame being observed by a player is loaded by the computer in order to save memory. This is frightfully similar to the way in which some particles travel as a wave of probability until they are observed.

[@420yoloscopes]

HarperOnPC Your idea stems from a misunderstanding of quantum superposition. Your understanding of FOV in games is decent tho lol.

[@JustinL614]

Xx420Y0L0 SC0P3ZxX Typical youtube comment..say someone else doesn't understand something but doesn't even bother explaining why..

[@nameguy101]

He's right though, occlusion culling and the Copenhagen interpretation aren't really related, or even similar... Also, the notion that parts of game architecture "are being discovered" in the physics of our universe is kind of hilarious. First off, it's conceited and dumb. But more importantly, if we were in a simulation, the odds would be that our games would look and work _nothing_ like the simulation in which we were.

[@0Macen0]

> This is frightfully similar to the way in which some particles travel as a wave of probability until they are observed. Except what you call "observation" is more accurately described as interaction. As far as the universe is concerned, it matters not if a particle hits a human retina, or the surface of a deserted moon in a galaxy far far away.

[@dr.catherineelizabethhalse1820]

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

[@ninjapunchgames5160]

If you need a universe sized computer why are we saying that the computer is the size of the universe that contains the civilization who created us? In other words, what if our universe is the size of a computer chip compared to the civilization who created us? What if our universe is that minuscule compared to a mega-sized universe or "mega verse" with gigantic civilizations? I don't know if that all makes sense but it does in my head so take it as you will lol.

[@MrNick615]

Aiden 22 yes you are saying the aliens who sim our universe just happen to have a far bigger, far more complex universe in which they live and so simming out Purs is child's play for them, done by their equivalent of a student science fair perhaps :)... Well I hope he gets an A and the blue ribbon, cause our universe is beautiful..

[@sleepingundrtree]

Aiden 22 Yes, that solves the limiting factor of size. Funny... I haven't heard this argument anywhere else.

[@mikkolappalainen2618]

They're leaving out the possibility of quantum computer. I think it was said in youtube science channels, that quantum computer that can hold 64qbit or around that number would be as powerfull as computer size of every atom in this universe. My numbers might be wrong, maybe it was 64, maybe 200, but still some very possible quantum computer build in future. And ain't the quantum computing actually at it's best doing simualtion of seemingly random things that have millions of "Moving parts"?

[@barkasz6066]

Yeah, exactly. We don't need very big computers to build huge worlds in games. If computer technology advances far enough, a city-sized computer or even a much smaller computer could simulate the observable universe.

[@bryanbowen4193]

The problem I see is once again scale. What is a computer the size of a universe without scale. Since scale is of relevance to the observer which in this case is us, then once the observation is dipped, also the scale is flipped.

[@boforotio]

IT doesn't matter , let's just love one another because it is already hard enough.

[@javiercalvelo2783]

What if distances in the universe are so large because that's a clever way to avoid us to reach anything outside the solar system and save computer power? :O

[@Mlogan11]

+Javier Calvelo If you ever make it to the edge, you just might see we are really in a Salvation Army bin on some city street.

[@romajimamulo]

Or it's just lying

[@marshallgatten6465]

That's another good point, Javier. They don't need to simulate what the regolith of Pluto feels like because we'll never touch it. (If we ever advance to where we might, they can add it in.) All that needs simulation is the details of the immediate environment and the effects of the more distant environment.

[@Dank_Engine]

Questions like this are why the idea has so much traction What we perceive as space expands so quickly that we may never see even the nearest star up close. It's strange, and given a certain bias lends credence to the notion that our lives are simulated.

[@veslar]

Good thinking. But if their computer runs out of memory pool, are we going to experience delay in reactions and start seeing polygons?

[@FiftyOneCatalin]

They should use my brain it only take the computing power of a nokia 3100 to simulate it

[@artificialavocado9652]

Man this is some pretty heavy stuff. How'd I get from cute kitty cat videos to this?

[@martind349]

It isn't unusual to miss cats' meanings, because we want them to be like us.

[@atvickishouse2700]

Artificial Avocado curious minds want to know

[@inertiaforce7846]

The simulation brought you here.

[@davidbeaulieu4815]

Haven't you seen cats vs dogs? The cats are behind it man your in their existential litterbox right now which is why the world is so shitty. 🤣

[@InnerLuminosity]

Keep your hands to yourself Neil! Damn!!

[@dusunsniper]

If this life is a simulation. I want the developer to bring my dad back to life.

[@johnjohn-sy5xt]

haha he’s in a better place now

[@wastertame3348]

Old Users must be cleared so New Users can start a new game.

[@sontosh007]

Simulation law prevent undoing these types of things..

[@jimbertido7762]

haha Sorry for your loss, friend.

[@johnwentzell1427]

That's a bummer on the otherwise funny comments.

[@FloridaManVal]

Is that why my neighbor keeps asking if I get to the cloud district very often? Of course I don't.

[@Prometheus7272]

Very Valyn I appreciate this Skyrim reference

[@melissawessel9114]

Here I am thinking its about weed lol #TypicalStoner

[@valiroime]

FUS RO **coughcoughcough**

[@shaishabchowdhury]

Simulation!! It's like modern theory of God

[@damarilawrence9330]

Shaishab Chowdhury Contemporary*

[@mathewomolo]

i was thinking the same thing.it's basically, the creation theory told in science friendly words.

[@Melos7Go]

The entropy laden universe is scientifically correct than talk about heaven & hell. Buddhism fits more to the holographic universe.

[@theway5258]

Melo Dausen I predict that simulation theory will be a new religion soon.

[@tddybear]

Except this one's more likely

[@TheBuzzBen]

I'm more interested in the question "how far are we from calculating our exact past?" A full statistical knowledge of our past would lead to easy predictions. One very powerful tool I'd love to put my hands on.

[@scottbilger9294]

I am increasingly convinced I'm an NPC.

[@squidracerX]

Why was everyone T posing at the Walmart I just went to!? Ahhhhhh!

[@JoelHernandez-yl6yw]

Yea, great bank.

[@deckardcain9789]

I know it's not a game/SIM. I can be a billionaire in a year in any game. I can change my appearance with a couple clicks. Reality needs an upgrade, and better UI.

[@zzzzzz-rn3oh]

NPCs are not capable of realizing that they are.

[@zzzzzz-rn3oh]

@Stefan Urban I acknowledge the possibility.

[@MrNodebate]

From a neuropsychological perspective, I always find it funny - and bewildering - to hear physicists talk about the human brain and similar topics... and, oh boy, do they get things wrong sometimes because *they tend to focus on computing power and whether it's possible to simulate anorganic matter like stars, planets, etc. - the easiest part of it all* ;) Just this much: from a neuroscientific perspective, we ARE a simulation - or better, illusion - constructed by our very own brain - or, more accurately, our subconsciousness. So we would be talking about *a simulation for a simulated consciousness...* There are endless questions we need to tackle before we even can begin to grasp this concept, and until we figure out how brains exactly works, we won't be able to construct anything the likes they talk about in this video. Further, they seem very unfocused about the topic: are we talking about a simulation for a *human brain or about an *artificial* brain? Those two topics might seem similar to someone unfamiliar with the matter, but those are very much separate fields of research...

[@Upstreamprovider]

@Hollow Shell But he's right. Most physicists don't know squit when it comes to psychology so they should stick to manipulating atoms.

[@jarzez]

Firstly, he clearly states that the most important part is to simulate the neurons in a brainlike structure, not about the anorganic matter that you claim he talks about. He even states that the input for the brain, ie the anorganic matter around it, is most likely much simpler to simulate and barely includes it in the calculations. I think it has it flaws to claim that we would be a simulation of our own brain aswell. A simulation is something consciously constructed to act in place of something else. I think I understand what you actually mean, but I would argue it is more logical to describe our conciousness as the output given by processing a sequence of inputs. The input is the truth, the output that we see and feel is a processed version of that. Why would there be "endless questions" to construct a sufficiently accurate artificial mind in an arbitrary world? Yes they are very different field of research. I've studied and currently work with "artificial brains", ie AI and machine learning. However, the difference here is not improtant for his point. He is talking about constructing an artificial brain that is sufficiently similar in action to a human brains. There is no one single human brain, it is a cluster of brains that will roughly reason similarly given the same input, but no brain is alike. And to simulate the human brain you would need to place yourself within that cluster, and be just sufficiently accurate.

[@piotrd.4850]

@@Upstreamprovider You do realize, that everything you call 'psychology' (which barely deserves to be called science) ultimately depends on just that: atoms and fields?

[@keefealicous]

The great thing is it doesn't matter if we are in a simulation or not - one should still live their life without fear because if it is a simulation then its all good you just had fun it was a game. If it isn't a simulation then thank god you lived without fear and lived life to its fullest potential. Essentially this should lead you to the idea of living without regrets because either way living in fear or not following your heart because it may be a simulation would be a waste whether it is or isn't.

[@hakankarakurt1100]

The funny thing is that even if we are simulated we are still in a mathematical universe. Mathematics seems to persist through simulations just as the SIMS needed mathematical basis to be coded. My question is that can we find a way to out-power our simulators with any sort of operation and calculation...

[@espnky1]

If we out power the simulation wouldn’t it cause a stack overflow or some other error and end our universe

[@hakankarakurt1100]

@@espnky1 Maybe maybe not… Maybe it would only slow down or Planck constant would change to a bigger value as if you are reducing your streaming quality in YT. The interesting question is whether something a simulatee do can overpower a simulator from within…

[@hussnainsamee2603]

Time to zip bomb the universe

[@McSchmeed]

But why does the world which simulate us have to have the same simulations as we have? For example: We simulate the world of skyrim. But in our world There arent the same physical laws as in Skyrim. So why are we thinking that the world that simulates us have the same laws?

[@Kyle-nn6sf]

REAL TALK!

[@bozo5632]

Because that would be the most useful kind of world for an ancestor sim; similar to the one they really evolved on. It does presume we are in an ancestor sim, not an mmorpg. Ancestor sims would probably be done for research, not fun.

[@deviantan021]

If they are able to make a million sims per second with that giant ass computer, some of them could be for fun, why not?

[@alwaysdisputin9930]

_"Ancestor sims would probably be done for research, not fun."_ Perhaps u should watch the tv show Westworld. IMDB rating = 9/10.

[@bozo5632]

+UK man loves goddesses - that's not an ancestor sim, it's an amusement park. In an ancestor sim, no one from the "real world" goes in and plays around. It's research. All the people in it are virtual people. But yeah, there'd could other be computerized entertainment of all kinds including some that were like scientific ancestor sims.

[@northpappyflappy]

This video is like listening to my grandmother tell me stories from her youth, it's interesting but I have no clue what shes talking about.

[@TheBigboy4u]

Developer console isn't given. It is earned.

[@barretprivateer8768]

For once I want Niel to stop talking. Matt is such a brilliant host and educator.

[@Sean_Nielsen]

Neil is honestly insufferable

[@goldnutter412]

Yes.. sadly this happened with one of the other nice gents at Asimov 2011 when I asked about something other than materialism All i got was unfalsifiable (so.. not false?) and another massive maths dump including illogical assumptions.. it... hurt inside

[@ancientaliensarecoming7201]

i often think about the posibility of this reality being a simulation and gives me anxiety

[@darkolonger9398]

@George David my biggest fear

[@ancientaliensarecoming7201]

@George David yea thats also bad, but imagine dying after not living any real life, any meaningful existance if we actually are just disembodied things that would never be able to break through..

[@bizzwoofer]

Me too.

[@Upstreamprovider]

Why? Even if it is true absolutely NOTHING has changed. I suggest you don't think about shit if it makes you anxious, then your problem is solved.

[@rayz639]

It’s a hypothesis at this point and isn’t even testable. It’s like losing sleep over the Big Bang being from a unicorns fart and us just leaving in it. There’s no point in putting any stock into the hypothesis. Reminder that even the greatest minds used to believe in the super natural. This is the same thing imo

[@isbestlizard]

Thinking about this and starting to doubt reality can do strange things to the mind

[@chinookvalley]

But if doesn't occur to you, then that will do strange things to the mind, as well.

[@quaidoralious4181]

Realty is real. Don't do anything weird mate.

[@UncaAlbyGmail]

what? thinking? yah, I find that painful sometimes.

[@donkeykong4983]

Lizard King IKR!!!! MY MIND FEELS ALL FUZZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@donkeykong4983]

Unca Alby IKR!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@CreativoErratico]

to the power of "42"... a planet sized computer... guys... GUYS!

[@fourteencrows1244]

zerosonico duuuude........

[@dustinchambers4172]

The answer to life the universe and everything is....42

[@LorakusFul]

Ok, now we just need to buld a machine powerfull enought to get the answer why it is "42" Waaaait whaat?

[@bottlekruiser]

+LorakusFul I see what you did there

[@someguy2135]

H2G2 is a simulation built into the minds of its readers.

[@valvefloatproductions9083]

I’m building a universe out of a video game, After watching this not only is my mind blown, and now I have a god complex relationship with my work, I’m also feeling like that snot nosed alien

[@redivulpis5764]

Greetings from the future, I love all of your shirts

[@coolkiwiinoz]

M W How far in the future? What is the bitcoin price?

[@mrgoodluckuniversal5004]

I'm not wearing a shirt...

[@stagger9660]

lmao. just watched a video of tyson completely rejecting the simulation theory. and here i am watching him completely support it.

[@Polyvalent]

such is the nature of science and debate. There are often valid backings for either side, especially when very little tangible facts exist supporting either side. it's fairly common for men like Tyson to take a side, or play devil's advocate, simply for the sake of constructive debate.

[@jesusthroughmary]

Bubbles That previous video was before Trump.

[@stagger9660]

sTyler ah. great minds do like to feed off eachother

[@ReknRalph]

It's the mark of an educated mind to entertain an idea without believing it.

[@bmerritt2433]

Rekn Ralph hmm that is a clever saying, but does it actually make any sense? i do not mean to call you out, but I do have a disdain for clever phrases which conveniently permit people the luxury of communication without the drudgery that is contemplation. it is my experience that education has little to do with one's ability or likelihood to entertain beliefs without succumbing to them.

[@Demo4356]

Could we just be a creation from the universe to experience itself?

[@MicTheGuitarMan]

@Calla Mett we are made from universe stuff so we are a part of the universe. The part that can observe itself

[@joshuaminardi8526]

This sounds like a dmt trip

[@masonreigns7339]

That is what the ancient belief is

[@flawlessstrategy9972]

Bill Hicks? “Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the Weather.” ― Bill Hicks

[@VashtiPerry]

Demo4356 yes

[@tyleraustin2156]

Very interesting to try and imagine. It makes me wonder if being in a simulation would make explaining black holes easy. I would assume a simulation has a limit in size, so the easiest way to delete information would be a natural almost unexplainable phenomenon where we will never know what happens to the information, as that's done by design? We will never be able to explain what happens on the other side because it's literally deleted from existence due to size constraints 😂 All fun speculation!

[@Stardude008]

Fun comment- nice work bro

[@ChrisBrengel]

6:30 "...you can mess with any of those numbers and still remain WITHIN THOSE FEW FACTORS OF TEN." Roughly speaking! LOL!

[@greatcesari]

Link to Full talk? Not the one in the description

[@nbydummy9157]

it seems the other channel hasn't posted it yet.

[@rodneykelly8768]

If the universe is a simulation, then I what a new avatar!

[@bitchslapthesun]

Rodney Kelly Same lol

[@aurora6106]

Mood.

[@voices4dayz469]

It's not

[@johnnyrayvibe318]

Rodney Kelly your Brian is the avatar not your body

[@live4christ295]

@@johnnyrayvibe318 Our brains? But they TOO are the body....lol This is a strawmans argument concocted ONLY to deny the FACT that God is creator of ALL things. These theories are used to torture the minds of MANY sick individuals through medication and "therapy". Have you ever heard a psychopath say that this world isn't real? It's a movie or video game? Because that's the DEFINITION of insanity. Taking your mind and disconnecting it from the IMPORTANCE of this life and the choices we make everyday. It's sad that so many people subscribe to such theories

[@camerondavis8356]

In the South in the 1980s, I was taught they were the Berenstein (like Albert Einstein) Bears. IF we are the first generation, enjoy your unedited life.

[@gibbyace5077]

*A Simulation* *IN A SIMULATION* *I N A S I M U L A T I O N* *I N A S I M U L A T I O N* *I N A S I M U L A T I O N* *I N A S I M U L A T I O N* *I N S I D E* *A* *S I M U L A T I O N*

[@NightmareCourtPictures]

A simulation within a simulation? Two levels? *leans forward* Three.

[@sbalogh53]

a Stimulation in a Simulation IN A SIMULATION I N A S I M U L A T I O N I N A S I M U L A T I O N

[@oreole9608]

Four.

[@gibbyace5077]

five

[@Aceystone]

Oh, and, by the way, I don't have discolored butthole flaps. That was part of the simulation.

[@nothingiseverything827]

If we are existing within a simulation, wlcould it be possible for us to somehow hack into the code and edit things?

[@mikkolappalainen2618]

"Theres no spoon"

[@grobbert]

could we go on their internet, and go into other universes?

[@fall_asleep]

They call it crispr

[@YoooEric]

This could possibly be the reasoning for the Mandela Effect occurring. Small edits to the virtual reality.

[@dirtyrk8501]

The editing part makes me think that we may have discovered that we are simulation thats why we have The Mandela effect

[@devilord3271]

Yeah it was the advanced civilization editing your memories that made you think Berenstain had an E instead of an A

[@SightCentralVideos]

The Mandela effect is not the changing of the past. The Mandela effect demonstrates how imprecise the mind’s memories are.

[@victorclabaugh1373]

As time goes on we remember things the way we want to or we remember incorrect gossip that is Mandela effect

[@firsteyeopen4588]

NO WAY THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE REMEMBER VIVIDLY, NELSON MANDELLA DYING N PRISON ALL TO BE SHOWN YEARS LATER BEING RELEASED, THE MONOPOLY MANS MONACLE, BERNSTEIN'S NOW SAYING BERNSTAIN... "LUKE, I AM YOUR FATHER" 2 SAYING NOW "I AM YOUR FATHER" I HAVE A FEELING THAT THE CERN MACHINE HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH SOMEHOW BENDING TIME AND SPACE AND THAT WE ARE IN A SORT OF TIME LOOP, LIKE THEY GO BACK OVER TO FIX THE OUTCOMES THEY WANT. LITERALLY A PROJECT. PLANET EARTH 🌍 GET IT? PLAN IT EARTH OR PLAN ET PLAN EXTRA TERRESTRIAL. THATS WHY THE SIMPSON'S AND ILLUNINATI CARD GAME "PREDICT THE FUTURE" ITS NOT PREDICTION OR PROPHECY ITS THE SAME PLANNED STORY LINE PLAYING OUT OVER AND OVER. EXPLAINS THE CHANGING OF HOLLYWOOD'S FACES, ANOTHER EXPLANATION THAN JUST CLONING. IT EXPLAINS DEJA VU, EXPLAINS DREAMS, EXPLAINS REINCARNATION. ALL OF IT IS JUST TIME BEING REWINDED N THEM LEARNING EACH TIME FROM IF. WHY DO YOU THINK ITS CALLED THE HUMAN RACE?

[@savannahboyer2588]

Firsteye Open I’m sure the aliens don’t speak English so they wouldn’t bother to call us “plan it earth” 😂😂😂

[@TrebleWing]

People usually say there is no evidence for the simulation argument. I have one idea on this. So, when you program a simulation you only have to, and should only, compute what the observer experiences. This is actually consistent with the double slit experiment. You only collapse the wave function when the causality is entangled with our perception of the result.

[@philsmith2346]

I'm stunned. WOW!! There must be a 10 (32) probability that 62% of the words you used in your thesis here are not used nor understood here in my beloved West Virginia. Thank you for the presentation, and thank you, PBS!

[@lacuevadelvampiro]

bru, "i predict that you don't beleive that." 😂😂😂check

[@Cypekjam94]

if we are in a simulation thank God we are not running on Windows

[@PedalScience]

no no we are; Trump's inauguration ≡ our update to windows 10

[@aerozord]

Don't you mean, thank the high programmer?

[@mysock351C]

Its running on Apple Mac OS, which is why we are all stuck in this piece of shit world without any options.

[@saladman8745]

God doesn't exist, "God" as you zelts call it are just us, just simulating you away. Up where we are simulating you zelts is the theory of us being simulated and that the simuluation we have created full of you zalks and zelts will soon be simulated by a man named Salil Khanna. He'll first create his eternal plain. After that he will run a single and multiplayer mode for fun. Then you start from your birth when you die. Your simulation will end when this zelt will form the simulation. We zekrts have only made it possible to come up to this point. This means in the year 2051, your world will end. Your eyes will go black and your heart will stop. This is the only time I am able to contact you zalks and hope you understand what we have put you through

[@greenghost7907]

MxstxrCxrtx I thought we were Zelts not Zalks?

[@mikefallopian3191]

Neil is obviously pretty free with his hands.

[@robertschlesinger1342]

Interesting and worthwhile video. There may be a means to show that it is highly likely we're in such a simulation. The seed of said means appeared in Research Letter (Utrecht), No. 11, circa 1982. When I have free time, I may expand on this highly speculative, interdisciplinary, and complicated hypothesis.

[@laartwork]

Visit a children's hospital. Go to the cancer ward. No one would simulate that. Also the is no GOD.

[@TeslaKuhn8]

I just hope someone saves a copy of me and keeps it on their shelf when they're done, and occasionally plugs me back in when they feel nostalgic.

[@goartist]

@@PretendingToBeAHuman or they simply logged in to transfer some valuable loot to the new fav char, and set you back to auto crafting :( :(

[@ummmno3871]

I’m good. They can just delete my file already.

[@dr.withoutthedegree3990]

@@PretendingToBeAHuman um no... We get a new character everytime because we wanna start over

[@progshark]

"I speak of a great computer that will come after me....it shall be called...EARTH!" - Deep Thought

[@firsteyeopen4588]

PLANET EARTH 🌍= PLAN IT EARTH 🌍 OR PLAN ET=PLAN EXTRA TERRESTRIAL. WONDER WHY THEY CALL IT THE "HUMAN RACE"

[@bigtravis6159]

It’s great that Some1 went ahead and crunches these numbers