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00:00Neil deGrasse Tyson says it could be 50-50 that we live in a simulation.
00:06Elon Musk says it's more likely than not.
00:08Pilots, astronauts, and surgeons can now all train in virtual reality.
00:13Astronomers can simulate the entire universe.
00:16Meteorologists, the weather.
00:19So how far do you think it could go?
00:22The digital age has seen the creation of simulated worlds and video games where anything and everything is possible.
00:33As technology progresses, so too does the believability of these worlds.
00:37Games may one day become indistinguishable from reality, providing immersive experiences with lifelike characters.
00:44But is it possible that we're the equivalent of a video game to someone else?
00:52Questions about the nature of reality have been central to philosophy for thousands of years.
01:03According to idealism, which rose to prominence in the 19th century, reality is a mental construct, the product of consciousness.
01:10In the last century or so, the theory has fallen out of favour, eclipsed by materialism.
01:15But the idea that reality might be illusory, or even a dream, has persisted on the sidelines.
01:21According to these theories, the simulation hypothesis might be the most convincing.
01:25In fact, many famed thinkers such as Elon Musk and Neil deGrasse Tyson think it's more likely than not.
01:31The hypothesis states that our reality is merely a simulation, something like the Matrix where everything is code in some type of computer.
01:39Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real?
01:44What if you were unable to wake from that dream?
01:47How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?
01:51Elon Musk is one of the best-known proponents of the hypothesis, giving the odds of us being in base reality at one in billions.
01:58But he's not the only one who gives the idea serious thought.
02:02The hypothesis was first formulated by Nick Bostrom in a 2003 paper entitled, Are We Living in a Computer Simulation?
02:09Since then, the idea has gained traction with a wide audience.
02:12NASA scientist Rich Terrell has argued that there's no reason that we can't eventually program consciousness into a computer,
02:18and that it's extraordinarily unlikely we're not in a simulation.
02:21He considers it a more reasonable hypothesis than believing that self-aware beings such as ourselves rose from nothing more than a primordial goo.
02:29It's a hypothesis that isn't easily knocked down.
02:32If advanced civilizations are able and willing to run such simulations, and run huge numbers of them,
02:37the result would be more simulated minds than real minds.
02:40In other words, most minds would belong to one of the simulated realities, rather than the single base reality.
02:46Of course, this assumes that the reality we live in can be simulated.
02:50But that at least seems possible.
02:52Matter, for example, is finite, and can be broken down into discrete units, with subatomic particles analogous to pixels in a video game.
03:00It might even soon be possible to code minds.
03:03In 2015, an international team of researchers was able to digitally recreate part of a rat's brain.
03:09If it's possible to upload entire brains, a concept called mind uploading, then how do we know that they haven't been already?
03:16And that our own brains aren't really uploads, living in a simulated reality?
03:20There's some physical evidence in favour of the hypothesis, too.
03:23For one, at the quantum level, phenomena exist in a superposition of different states until measured, what's known as the observer effect.
03:30It's been argued that this could be a way to save memory or processing power, rendering reality only when it's observed.
03:38Our DNA, too, is eerily similar to computer code.
03:44In fact, in 2017, a team of researchers at the University of Washington embedded actual computer code in a physical strand of DNA, highlighting just how similar the two may be.
03:55In addition, theoretical physicist James Gates claims to have identified computer code in a form of string theory, the closest theory to everything that we currently have.
04:04For some, the simulation hypothesis is also a more satisfactory explanation for so-called supernatural activity, as it can be put down to glitches in the program.
04:13Ghosts, for example, could be representations of past lives that accidentally become visible.
04:18If we are living in a simulation, can we ever escape?
04:22Out of the simulation, Morty! Normally the chamber operates like a treadmill, with the virtual world disappearing behind us and being rendered in front of us as we move through it.
04:29But while it's frozen, Morty, we can get to… the edge.
04:33Well, aliens might provide a clue to that question.
04:36With the sheer number of planets in the cosmos and the staggering amount of time that the universe has existed, why haven't we observed intelligent extraterrestrial life?
04:45This is known as the Fermi Paradox, and one potential explanation is that when civilizations become advanced enough, they learn to escape the simulation we all live in.
04:54Meaning that aliens did exist in our universe once upon a time, but were able to escape before we came along.
05:00Our ultimate fate may be to learn how to escape our virtual prison and experience the real outer world.
05:05Then again, why would anyone create a simulation like ours in the first place?
05:09One hypothesis is that our future descendants created us in a simulation to see how we evolved and to potentially recreate the past by programming the same boundaries of reality.
05:19This is called an Ancestor Simulation.
05:22Another idea posits that we were created to solve a difficult problem that our programmers don't have enough time to figure out.
05:28This could potentially be climate change, as it's more than likely that an advanced civilization will initially burn fossil fuels for power and run into the same problems as us.
05:37If that's the case, we could be a simulation whose purpose is to solve climate change, a problem that, unfortunately, we haven't quite figured out yet.
05:45Or, like video games or movies, perhaps we're nothing more than entertainment, a reality show for higher beings to enjoy to escape to from their own dull existences.
05:55As technology progresses, we're looking more and more into the simulation hypothesis.
06:00When we do get to the point where our own computer simulations match reality, a possibility that's all but ensured in time, we may start escaping to these virtual worlds for more exciting lives.
06:10At that point, we'll already be living in simulations for at least some of our lives.
06:15There may even come a time when people go to work in simulations instead of physically travelling to their jobs and end up spending a majority of their lives in a virtual reality.
06:23It's no stretch to think that since it may one day be possible, we could already be living in one.
06:28And as our knowledge of science grows, we may be able to mathematically prove once and for all that everything we've ever known has been nothing more than code programmed into a higher being's computer.
06:42In 1989, SimCity was released.
06:45The first of its kind, it had players build homes, construct infrastructure, collect taxes, and more.
06:51Its success kick-started a new genre of video games, urban simulation, which led to the ultra-successful Sims franchise.
06:59Players apparently enjoy the omnipotent feeling, running and perhaps ruining the lives of their characters on screen.
07:06But sometimes, the real world can feel a little like life imitating art.
07:11And some have reported experiences that made them feel as though they were a Sim in someone else's game.
07:21Broadly, simulation theory is the idea that our entire world – everything we know, have known, and will ever know – is merely a simulation being run on a highly advanced supercomputer on another, higher plane somewhere.
07:41It's a somewhat divisive concept.
07:43Well-known scientists such as Neil deGrasse Tyson and Nick Bostrom have argued in favour of the theory before, particularly Bostrom, although others remain sceptical.
07:53One of the problems with simulation theory is the same as that which dogs many a theoretical suggestion.
07:59It's extremely hard to either prove or disprove.
08:02It's not something that anyone can easily find evidence for or against.
08:07But nevertheless, with the rise of technology in recent decades, Sim theory is becoming more and more popular in the modern world.
08:15With video games and CGI technology growing more lifelike by the year, it's no longer hard to imagine a future when even the simulations that we build will be almost indistinguishable from real life.
08:27With breakthroughs in quantum computing seemingly just around the corner, too, we'll soon have more data than ever at our fingertips, enabling, among other things, ever more detailed, artificial environments.
08:39Indeed, it seems the only thing standing between us and creating a truly lifelike simulation for ourselves is our current level of advancement right now.
08:49According to various models, if there is other alien life out there, then the chances are that at least some of it is already more advanced than we are.
08:58So, what if there were or are aliens who already have the required technology?
09:03It would mean that there's a chance, perhaps a strong chance, that they'd have by now built the kind of simulation we're imagining.
09:10A super sim. And then that we could be a part of that.
09:14And although evidence is hard to find, there are still plenty of stories that seem to suggest our reality isn't quite what we think.
09:21One of the most intriguing examples actually comes from a master storyteller himself, Philip K. Dick.
09:27The famous science fiction author achieved widespread success with the likes of Minority Report, Blade Runner, and The Man in the High Castle all based off his work.
09:37What might surprise fans, however, is that he also underwent a series of intense religious or spiritual experiences in real life.
09:45And these ultimately influenced a lot of his later writings.
09:48In 1974, Philip K. Dick underwent dental surgery, and it was reportedly shortly afterwards that his reality began to crumble.
09:57According to his own accounts, he first saw a pink light that revealed universal truths to him.
10:03From that light, he apparently gained a much deeper understanding of philosophy and of the wider world.
10:08Next, and again shortly after the surgery, he started to see visions, hallucinations, or what some might call glitches in the matrix.
10:17The past began to seep into the writer's present, so much so that he allegedly witnessed the modern world merge with ancient Rome.
10:25Ordinary citizens around him morphed into Roman guards, and Philip K. Dick himself began to live a second life as a Christian of the time named Thomas.
10:34Later referring to that first pink light, he further described it as experiencing, quote,
10:39an invasion of the mind by a transcendentally rational mind, end quote.
10:44Perhaps the most rational explanation is that what he experienced was some kind of psychotic break, but there are some alternate theories.
10:52For one, could that rational mind he spoke of have been a link to a higher power?
10:57A power like the creator of our simulation, perhaps?
11:00Granting one of our most creative thinkers a peek behind the curtain.
11:04Next, we encounter another aspect of life in general that some argue may point to it all being a made-up sim.
11:11Luck.
11:12Luck is a strange concept, overall.
11:15Difficult to explain, and certainly difficult to master.
11:18Some of us are luckier than others, of course.
11:20But one man's luck played out to such extremes that his story has become linked with possible proof of some other, higher force.
11:28Frano Celic is known both as the luckiest and unluckiest man in history, depending on how you look at it.
11:35He was a music teacher leading an ordinary life until a train crash in 1962 that almost resulted in his death.
11:42But he was pulled to safety while others died.
11:45Then, a year later, a plane he was in began to plummet to the ground as an emergency door burst open.
11:52Celic was actually dragged out of the plane during the fall.
11:56The eventual crash killed 19 people, but Celic survived as a result of falling through the open door and apparently landing in a nearby haystack.
12:04So that's two near-fatal disasters in just a few months.
12:08But, Celic's bizarre luck and life story wasn't done there.
12:12He went on to defy death a number of other times.
12:15He escaped a sinking bus, was hit by another bus, his car exploded while he was driving it,
12:21and he was flung out of another car when it crashed into a ravine, leaving Celic to beat the odds once again by clinging onto a tree for dear life.
12:30Having come through all of that, however, Celic went on to win the equivalent of more than one million dollars on the lottery.
12:38Death couldn't beat him, and fortune eventually fell into his lap.
12:42For some, his story is akin to that of a video game character.
12:46So unlikely that surely it can't have been by pure chance.
12:50Surely there has to have been someone pulling the strings for Celic somewhere.
12:55What do you think?
12:56Maybe we need more than just individual case studies to truly question reality, though.
13:01And, actually, there are examples of shared experiences involving large numbers of people that seemingly defy explanation.
13:09First, throughout history, multiple sailors and pirates have written accounts of seeing mystical structures in the sky, like castles, while they've been out at sea.
13:19This may well be alternatively explained as ocean mirages appearing before tired crews, a phenomenon sometimes called a fata morgana.
13:28But these apparent visions are also said to have led people to their deaths before.
13:32Sailors have followed what they've seen because it just doesn't make sense to them, and ultimately they've paid a heavy price.
13:40Indeed, such sightings are likely the inspiration behind the story of the legendary ghost ship, the Flying Dutchman.
13:46But it's not as though bizarre things in the sky are only seen over the sea.
13:50Similar seeming impossibilities have appeared over land, too, and even over densely populated cities.
13:57In 2015, citizens in China looked up to see what appeared to be an entire cityscape present itself amongst the clouds,
14:06each dark shadow doubling as a detailed outline of a different tower or building.
14:11Again, such was the strangeness of the sight that it caused many to think that this was a glitch in reality, or the simulation,
14:19just as when something in a video game loads in the wrong spot or clips through part of the environment.
14:25Various, more scientific explanations have been put forward for the Sky City in China,
14:30and the Phantom Palaces witnessed by seafarers… but not everyone is satisfied.
14:35Some claim that in attempting to explain them away, we're actually refusing to see what's really there,
14:41an apparently open window into the background mechanics of the sim that we're all stuck in.
14:47But, again, what's your verdict?
14:50Perhaps you've also had a feeling before that something just isn't quite right?
14:54If you'd like to, then let us know about it in the comments.
14:58From Philip K. Dick's possible bridge to the other side, to Frano Selick's hugely improbable run of luck,
15:05to the incredible mass sightings of apparently floating worlds,
15:09do we already have all the evidence we need that our world isn't what we think it is?
15:14The suggestion that all of our experiences are actually being programmed by some sort of supercomputer in the sky
15:21is still a reasonably new one.
15:23The true nature of reality has long been a philosophical talking point,
15:27but perhaps now it's time for science to take a more practical approach.
15:31Already, some claim that the odds of us really living in a sim are as high as 50%.
15:40It's becoming easier to imagine that we're really characters in a video game or virtual world,
15:45living out our lives for someone else's entertainment.
15:48If this hypothesis were true, we might one day be able to scientifically prove it.
16:02The simulation hypothesis has roots in ancient religious beliefs and philosophy,
16:07but it became a mainstream staple of pop culture thanks to the 1999 movie The Matrix.
16:12In it, computer programmer and hacker Thomas Anderson, a.k.a. Neo,
16:16discovers that he's living in a digital simulation that's really just vertical lines of green code.
16:21In 2003, the simulation hypothesis was reformulated and reinvigorated by Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom.
16:28Bostrom argued that either human civilizations will never be capable or interested in running ancestor simulations,
16:34or they will, in which case they'll probably run a gazillion of them,
16:38meaning we're more likely to be living in a simulation than in the real world.
16:42The idea has been influential.
16:44Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has claimed that there's a one in billions chance
16:49we're living in a non-simulated, organic, base reality.
16:52Prominent theoretical physicist Dr. S. James Gates Jr. says that certain equations related to string theory
16:58are a mirror image of code you could find in your computer.
17:01Just as programs are based in numbered code, so is our universe similarly governed by mathematical laws.
17:07And quantum mechanics demonstrates that the simple act of observing something,
17:10even by an electronic detector, changes reality.
17:13Something that's incredibly difficult to explain.
17:16If we imagine our universe as a bunch of particles all following predictable mathematical equations,
17:21this is analogous to observation altering the code of reality.
17:24Of course, proving that we live in a simulation isn't easy.
17:27Assuming that the simulation relies on finite computational resources,
17:31we might be able to show that space-time is divided into a discrete set of points,
17:35or only renders when the information becomes available to us.
17:38For now, let's just assume that such an experiment was successful and proved the matrix.
17:43The first thing that humans would probably do would be to find a way to control the simulation.
17:48After all, just think of the possibilities.
17:50By manipulating the code of our existence, we could stop time, generate endless money,
17:55learn skills instantly, or teleport anywhere in the universe.
17:58In doing so, we'd essentially be activating the cheat codes to our lives.
18:02We could even try jumping to alternate realities or parallel universes,
18:06which would really be simulations run simultaneously with ours.
18:09If they didn't exist, we might be able to just create them, as new simulations nested in our own.
18:15We could then travel to places like Middle Earth, Hogwarts, Westeros, or any other location we could imagine.
18:20We could even fix our own world, ending global warming and solving world hunger.
18:25But how could we go about hacking the code?
18:27Maybe it would only require awareness of the simulation, as in The Matrix,
18:31where Neil learns to bend the rules.
18:33Or it might be possible to see through the illusion using meditation, as is taught in some Vedic philosophies.
18:38Then again, it might be much more complicated.
18:40After all, how could a video game character access the code to their own game?
18:44Well, we might not be able to, but perhaps a sophisticated enough AI
18:48could puzzle out a way for us to infect life's operating system.
18:51Then again, there may also be bugs that we can exploit.
18:54This could involve manipulation of subatomic particles,
18:57for example through our experiments with quantum entanglement.
19:00Or it could mean altering the code of our DNA to influence traits like strength,
19:04intelligence, and physical attractiveness.
19:06In fact, the technology to be able to do this may already exist with the CRISPR-slash-Cas9 gene editing tool,
19:12which, as its name suggests, can alter a living organism's genes.
19:16Mind you, we might not want to exploit potential bugs too much,
19:19lest our creators decide to just reset the simulation.
19:22Even if we couldn't hack the universe,
19:24proving The Matrix would fundamentally change how we think about our world.
19:28In particular, it could give us plausible explanations for previously unexplained phenomena.
19:33For example, the claim that Jesus healed people and turned water into wine.
19:37Perhaps he was able to access and alter the code of our simulation.
19:41Similarly, our experience of deja vu might really be a glitch in The Matrix.
19:45It could also explain how our mind is able to strongly affect our body.
19:49Consider the placebo effect, which occurs when a patient's condition improves
19:52in response to a fake treatment that they believe to be real.
19:55Using this method, psychologists at Victoria University in New Zealand
19:59were able to convince research participants that they were drunk on vodka,
20:02even though they'd only had tonic water and lime.
20:05The participants felt drunk, acted drunk, and were more swayed by misleading information.
20:10Researchers still aren't entirely sure how this happens,
20:13but the placebo effect is so strong that in some cases it can be effective as medical treatment.
20:17The public's reaction to discovering that existence is nothing more than a computer code would likely be split.
20:23While some would find it fascinating, others would face an existential crisis,
20:27as they asked themselves, if life is just a simulation, does anything matter?
20:31Many would no doubt look for a way to break free from our virtual prison to see the real world.
20:35After all, proving The Matrix would almost certainly point to there being a creator who wrote the code.
20:40Could we somehow visit them, then?
20:42Such a crisis could threaten the fabric of our society.
20:45People might no longer see the point of going to work at a job they hate
20:48if their lives are nothing more than code in a program.
20:51If that happened, our economy would collapse as countless people quit.
20:54In another sense, however, proving The Matrix might give us an answer to the meaning of life.
20:58We would finally know once and for all that we're not an accident or a byproduct of random probability.
21:03Someone specifically created us for a certain purpose.
21:06We might be a sort of experiment, designed to see how frequently life develops in the universe.
21:11Or we might be a form of entertainment for higher beings, basically an advanced version of Sims.
21:16In some way, proving The Matrix might even serve to soothe people's existential anxiety.
21:20Because it at least provides an answer as to why we're here.
21:23In such a world, death might not have the same import,
21:26and there's a chance we might continue to exist as code somewhere.
21:29If not, we might be able to find out how to become immortal by manipulating that same code.
21:34In fact, it might be preferable to remain inside The Matrix than to escape it, even if we could.
21:39Elon Musk has pointed out that we don't create games or simulations that are more boring than our base reality.
21:44We create them to add excitement or entertainment to our lives.
21:48So maybe base reality is just really dull?
21:51Proving The Matrix would offer exciting new possibilities.
21:54It would completely change our view of the world, and if we could manipulate or exploit the source code,
21:59we really could dodge bullets in slow motion, leap over rooftops, or obtain all the knowledge in the world.
22:04Effectively becoming superheroes or gods.
22:11Are we living in a simulated universe?
22:14How real is reality?
22:16The simulation theory provides us with so many existential avenues to explore,
22:20but what happens if the roles are reversed, and we're the ones in control?
22:35Humanity has long wrestled with the notion that life, the universe, and everything
22:39might actually be a whole heap of… nothing.
22:42The ancient scholars continually questioned their own existence,
22:45while the 17th century philosopher René Descartes is well-remembered for his views
22:50that life can never truly be trusted.
22:52Inspiring his most famous line,
22:54Cogito ergo sum, I think, therefore I am.
22:59In more modern times, the simulation hypothesis has taken over as alternative worldview number one.
23:05This idea that we are built, rendered, and controlled by a technologically supreme higher power
23:10has been the basis of many a movie or game series,
23:13as well as some previous videos on this very channel.
23:16But today we're turning the question around,
23:18to ask what would happen if, against all the odds,
23:21humans weren't the ones populating the sim, but were actually the ones running it.
23:26Straight away, this scenario requires human society to rank as one of the most advanced societies
23:31across all of space and all of history.
23:34For that reason alone, it's statistically unlikely that it will ever come to pass.
23:38Currently, life on Earth is the most advanced we know about in the universe.
23:42But we also have nothing to compare it to.
23:44We're a sample size of just one.
23:47So, what are the chances that we're also a model of cosmological perfection?
23:51They're not high.
23:52Regardless, the fact that we've managed to concoct something like the simulation hypothesis
23:57says something about our intelligence,
23:59as does the arrival of virtual and augmented reality tech.
24:03On some limited level, then, we might argue that we're already building reality sims of our own.
24:09Just ask anyone who's spent an afternoon crashing around their living room in a VR headset,
24:14or has sunk hours of time into a world-building video game.
24:18But this would be a wholly different prospect.
24:20A human-controlled, conscious reality sim could go one of two ways.
24:24It could be accessible by only a limited number of people,
24:28or it could be that everyone can join in.
24:30With the first option, the sim's existence might be kept secret from the majority
24:35and treated as a futuristic experiment.
24:37Or it might be that everyone can observe the sim, it's just that they can't affect it.
24:42So, it becomes a kind of detached entertainment.
24:44Reality TV 2.0.
24:47With the second option, where it's open access and we can all join in,
24:51our sim becomes a sort of second world.
24:54It could be that we ourselves inhabit the simulation,
24:57in the 2018 Steven Spielberg movie, Ready Player One.
25:00Or it could be that we, all of us, control it from the outside.
25:04That humans are elevated to assume a god-like position.
25:07Let's take a deeper look at that first option.
25:10Imagine that there's a small group, somewhere on Earth,
25:13that really has worked out how to birth an entire reality filled with definitely conscious beings.
25:19There are a number of reasons why they might not want to let the rest of the world know about it,
25:23but chief among them would be the total panic it could trigger.
25:26Because, if humans can build a sim convincing enough to pass as the real world for those that inhabit it,
25:32then couldn't something else be doing the same to us?
25:35And then something else to them? And so on?
25:38The knowledge of even one layer of simulated reality could unravel fears of endless more layers,
25:43and that could prove the end of civilization, even as we primitively understand it.
25:48That's a big problem.
25:50But what about if the same select group of sim creators can also prove with certainty that there aren't any more layers?
25:57Perhaps, whilst birthing their own reality, they've devised methods of testing this one, too,
26:02and it's found to be authentic.
26:04It really is real.
26:06At that point, they might safely reveal their creation to the rest of humankind,
26:10and thereby change the world forever.
26:13Everyone on the planet would now be faced with the knowledge that everyone in the sim was none the wiser to their true nature.
26:19Some would undoubtedly pray for them.
26:21But the guiding hand of their god would be totally known to us.
26:25The simulated beings might show faith in an unseen divine figure, much as many humans do.
26:30But we, on our now-heightened level of reality, would know that their faith was actually being placed in just mortal flesh and bone.
26:38As a result, those in command of the sim could well develop a massive god complex.
26:43Only now, it wouldn't be a delusion.
26:45They really would be in control of everything.
26:48For as long as the sim remained under the power of only a selected few, however,
26:52it's not as though those few could never be challenged by everyone else on Earth watching on.
26:57After all, we would know what their simulations would not.
27:00That they weren't really gods, and were still just normal, if incredibly intelligent, people.
27:06Soon, the sim controllers could face resistance.
27:09There'd be campaigns for sim rights, for example, with calls for control of the sims to stop.
27:14And the life and fate of the simulated beings would be continually discussed by ethics boards.
27:19These issues don't disappear, however, if we imagine our second option for a human-led sim.
27:24That it's accessible and controllable by everyone.
27:27In many ways, the problems actually increase.
27:30Now we have the potential for all humans to rule and manipulate a different world,
27:34to the benefit or detriment of not just the sims, but also themselves.
27:39Would the simulated beings be treated fairly, or cruelly?
27:42Would we recognize ourselves in them, or treat them as lesser than, or other?
27:47Might the simulated world become just a testing ground for real-world ideas?
27:51Or could we turn it into a utopia, and in fact prefer to spend our time there than in our actual reality?
27:58And could that mean that the real world falls to ruin?
28:01With so much that could go wrong, there'd no doubt be some attempt made to police the sim.
28:06To monitor who accesses it, and when, and to track the changes they make while they're tapped in.
28:11But how would we go about deciding the laws of this land?
28:14And given that the inhabitants of the sim would all in their own minds be conscious,
28:18would these even be decisions that we'd have the right to make?
28:22Perhaps there'd be certain grades of access available, ranging from tourist to full-on world builder.
28:28But again, how to decide who sits at the top and at the bottom of that hierarchy?
28:33If nothing else, in this strange, multi-dimensional, alternate version of reality,
28:38there would be one rule that no one could break.
28:41Under no circumstances must the truth be revealed.
28:45For the sim inhabitants, such a revelation could destroy their existence.
28:49For the human controllers watching on, it might only play out like a glitch across the system
28:54before it shuts down and we all carry on with our lives.
28:57But for those inside the world that we built, it's the apocalypse.
29:01It's the end of days. And it would be all our fault.
29:05Could you do it? Could you be the one to unveil the truth and set in motion the sim-shattering consequences?
29:11Thankfully for now, there are no signs that humanity has or ever will have this kind of higher, cross-dimensional power.
29:18If we did, we can all hope that we'd use it wisely, fairly, and for the benefit of both this world and the created one.
29:26But a god complex come true wouldn't necessarily be for the better.
29:31So, what's your verdict? Is the simulation real?
29:34Are we currently living within it? Or are we on the cusp of creating it for ourselves?
29:39Are we at the top of this particular alternate reality?
29:43Or merely one of potentially many simulated realms run by others?
30:05If the simulation does exist, then it certainly isn't common knowledge throughout our species.
30:10And the day that it becomes common knowledge would surely be the most significant day in our entire history, for better or worse.
30:18What do you think? Is there anything we missed? Let us know in the comments.
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