Is Our Reality a Simulation? The Truth Behind The Matrix

Let me start with what what what is simulation theory. So, you know, I taught the first and probably the only class at a university in the in the United States about this emerging field of simulation theory, which is based on something called the simulation hypothesis, which is the idea that our physical world isn't really physical at all, but rather that it consists of information and it gets rendered for us to look real as in a computer simulation or a massively multiplayer game. Now, the best popular culture representation of this, or the best known representation was of course the film The Matrix, which came out in 1999. In fact, the first edition of my book uh came out on March 31st, 2019, which was literally the day of the the 20th anniversary uh of of The Matrix. And in The Matrix, you know, Neo played by Keanu Reeves thinks he's living in a real world, going to a real job with a real cubicle. And it turns out all of that is all virtual, being generated, you know, by by a computer program. In that case, they were using a brain computer interface. Uh so that ...