WEBVTT - Let There Be Light 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:07.440 This is Red Pilled America. This week America lost its 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:10.640 Internet Dad, Scott Adams. The news was not a shock 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:13.360 to any of us, because, just as he lived his life, 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:16.839 Scott generously gave us the opportunity to prepare for his 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:20.200 departure and say our goodbyes at Red Pilled America. We 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:22.560 did that by producing a four part series on his 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:25.520 life entitled The Internet Dad, which you can listen to 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:28.800 on any audio podcast platform. What we learned from our 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:32.000 interactions with him was that Scott Adams was an incredibly 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:34.640 generous man. When we reached out to him about being 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:37.199 on the show in early twenty twenty, he could have 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:40.480 just ignored the message. We were a small, little anomaly 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:42.960 of a podcast with not much history at the time, 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:45.600 but instead of ignoring our message, he took the time 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:47.800 to speak with us, time that we would later learn 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:51.640 was precious. While the result was magical, our conversation led 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:54.400 to this episode, Let There Be Light, which we first 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:57.320 published on May ninth, twenty twenty. It would go on 0:00:57.400 --> 0:00:59.960 to become far and away our most popular episode, and 0:00:59.960 --> 0:01:02.800 to our pleasant surprise, it inspired Scott to create one 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:05.839 of his most influential streams of all time. Which he 0:01:05.960 --> 0:01:07.920 opened with a message about this episode. 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:11.840 So something happened today that was a very big deal 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:15.039 in my life because it opened the door for me 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:16.800 to tell you the next thing I'm going to tell you, 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:20.240 and it was that there was a podcast by Red 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:25.760 Pilled America on iHeartRadio with Patrick Kurelshi I hope I'm 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:29.440 saying that right, and is a co host Adriana Cortez. 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:32.160 You should listen to. This podcast is one of the 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:39.559 best produced, written, directed, performed the thing I've ever seen. 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:42.640 I mean, it is really high quality just as a production. 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:45.319 So even if you the content didn't interest you, and 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:48.920 believe me, it will. It's really interesting. The content is amazing. 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:51.760 Part of it's about me, which is part of the story, 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:55.560 but it's just really well done. So do yourself a 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:59.760 favor and listen to it. It will be necessary probably 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:03.000 for you to fully get this next part. 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:06.120 Scott would go on to give his legendary stream the 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:09.520 User Interface for Reality. To celebrate Scott's life, we thought 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:12.200 we'd replay let There Be Light. It asked the question 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:15.600 is science fiction bringing us closer to God? In it, 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:18.880 we tell the story of the development of the simulation theory, 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:21.960 a theory we believe played a role in leading Scott 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:25.320 Adams to Jesus Christ. We already miss you, Scott, but 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:28.160 we'll see you sometime soon. We promised to follow your 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:33.800 mantra be useful. Now on with the show. Are we 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:37.359 living in a virtual reality? It may sound far fetched, 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:43.160 but this science fiction concept is seriously being considered by 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:44.519 the world's biggest thinkers. 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:45.960 This could be some simulation. 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:47.040 It could do. 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:48.480 You entertain that well. 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:52.000 The argment for the simulation, I think is quite strong. 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:56.760 Tonight's topic is the universe a computer simulation. 0:02:57.000 --> 0:02:59.480 The idea that we're living in a simulation is no 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:03.440 longer just crazy talk, and the concept suggests something that 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:07.520 makes most scientists uncomfortable. If we're living in a simulation, 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:12.080 there must be a creator with this idea spreading It 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:16.200 raises the question is science fiction bringing us closer to God? 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:21.120 I'm Patrick Carelci. 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:23.359 And I'm Adriana Cortes and this. 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:26.000 Is Red Pilled America, a storytelling show. 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:27.639 This is not. 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:30.840 Another talk show covering the day's news. We're all about 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:31.760 telling stories. 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:35.440 Stories. Hollywood doesn't want you to hear stories. 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:40.160 The media mocks stories about everyday Americans. At the globalist ignore. 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:44.040 You can think of Red Pilled America as audio documentaries, 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:53.520 and we promise only one thing, the truth. Welcome to 0:03:53.600 --> 0:04:07.480 Red Pilled America. One night in the early days of 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:09.800 the quarantine, a thought popped into my head just as 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:13.200 I was falling asleep. Is this real life? Have we 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:16.960 really shut down the entire US economy? For a moment, 0:04:17.039 --> 0:04:19.279 as I laid there, I was convinced that I'd wake 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:22.240 up the next morning and the entire quarantine mess would 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:24.760 just be a bad dream. I think most of us 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:27.560 have experienced this in their life, or something so unbelievable 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:30.640 happens that you begin to question whether it's actually occurring. 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:33.440 Maybe it's triggered by the death of a loved one, 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:36.680 or when you're young and just becoming self aware, or 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:38.480 maybe it's happened when you're in some kind of an 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:40.880 altered state, like that kid who just got out of 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:44.040 his dental surgery. 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:46.159 Is its real life? 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:48.080 Yeah, this is real life. 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:51.839 At some point in life, we've all questioned reality. The 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:54.320 surreal nature of the quarantine was one of those times, 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:57.000 and it reminded me of a provocative concept that has 0:04:57.040 --> 0:05:00.719 been gaining steam throughout science circles for well over a decade, 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:04.719 and that concept is the simulation argument, the idea that 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:07.520 we are all not actually real life, flesh and blood 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:11.640 human beings existing in a physical world, but instead we're 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:14.560 living in a computer simulation like the matrix. 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:17.280 Right now, we're inside a computer program. 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:20.320 Is it really so hard to believe? The concept of 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:23.400 living in a simulated reality may sound ridiculous to most, 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:27.160 but it's occupied the minds of some of today's biggest thinkers, 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:29.400 including tech mogul Elon Musk. 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:31.919 How do you think we'll virtual reality tie in the 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:34.880 future of the transportation which you've got working on, thank you. 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:37.040 Oh maybe we're in a simulation right now? 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:41.120 Yeah? 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:48.039 Well, yeah, seriously, the popularity of this concept got me 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:52.520 to thinking, can the simulation, this science fiction concept bring 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:55.520 us closer to God. To find the answer, we're going 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:58.240 to look at the origin of this fascinating idea and 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:01.920 how our prediction by cartoonist Scott Adams would eventually help 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:05.839 lead your humble code host back to God. Trust me 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:08.080 when I say that you may not buy into this 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:11.080 take on the world as a simulated reality, but you 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:14.680 will undoubtedly see the profound shift it brings to the 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:18.680 debate between science and faith, and the God fearing community 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:19.880 could come out ahead. 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:36.320 Scott Adams has a truly unique mind, as the creator 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:38.920 of the Dilbert comic strip and the best selling author 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:42.800 of Loser Think how untrained brains are ruining America. You 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:45.600 may not have expected a cartoonist to be the kind 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:48.680 of thinker that shifts the national narrative, but you'd be 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:53.040 wrong in that assumption. For over three decades, Scott Adams 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:56.440 has been impacting American culture in ways few can claim, 0:06:56.920 --> 0:06:59.920 whether through Dilbert, where he lampoons the absurdity of our 0:06:59.960 --> 0:07:04.080 American corporate overlords, or through his Morning and Show Coffee 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:07.640 with Scott Adams, where he regularly picks apart media hoaxes. 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:11.640 Scott Adams has a way of nailing predictions and riling 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:17.960 up the masses all along the way. For people who've 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:20.320 been following Scott, you may think that it was his 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:24.320 analysis of Trump's historic presidential run that landed him in 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:27.920 his biggest pickle, But it wasn't. It was actually a 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:31.640 nineteen ninety seven prediction that seemed preposterous. 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:35.160 I wrote the book The Dilbert Future that's Scott, and 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:37.360 I tried to make a bunch of predictions that we 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:40.600 could actually, you know, later test, and I intentionally picked 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:45.240 what I thought was the most ridiculously impossible prediction. And 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:46.840 then if you get that one right, you know you 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:49.960 really got something the show. So I picked that the 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:53.600 theory of evolution would be debunked in my lifetime. 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:57.160 Now, at the time, Scott's Dilbert comic strip had already 0:07:57.200 --> 0:08:01.680 become wildly popular throughout mainstream America, but its core audience, 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:04.960 the group that first adopt to Dilbert were techies, a 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:06.640 naturally science heavy crowd. 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:12.280 Now, imagine every scientist and biologist hearing that, Oh my god. 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:16.600 You know, I was attacked for years, decades actually from 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:20.280 people saying and the dumbest thing anybody ever said is 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:23.920 this guy doesn't believe in evolution. Now they twisted that 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:27.240 into I don't believe in evolution, which is not exactly 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:29.239 what I was saying. I was making a prediction. 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:32.520 His critics accused him of being a creationist and an 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:36.560 apologist for intelligent design. He was neither, but that didn't 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:39.440 stop the prediction from landing him in the crosshairs of 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:43.120 the science world. Why would his readers be so triggered 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:46.520 by Scott's prediction. Well, the best person to help answer 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:48.960 that question is the man who has been the face 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:52.840 of evolution for the past four decades, Richard Dawkins. 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:57.040 I'm a biologist, and the central theorem of our subject, 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:04.400 Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection in profess circles everywhere. 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:06.480 It's of course, universally accepted. 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:10.120 According to mister Dawkins, and pulls on this back him up. 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:15.160 Those from the science, technology, engineering, mathematics, the STEM community 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:20.080 overwhelmingly believe in evolution by natural selection, the theory popularized 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:24.000 by Charles Darwin that all living things developed incrementally from 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:37.880 a common ancestor. This explains why Dilbert's audience would disagree 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:42.280 with Scott's evolution debunking prediction, but it doesn't totally get 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:46.360 it why his detractors would react with such hostility. Well, 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:50.360 the oracle of evolution can help illuminate that too. In 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:53.000 a two thousand and two speech given it the Technology 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:57.280 Entertainment Design Conference, or TED as it's widely known, mister 0:09:57.360 --> 0:09:59.840 Dawkins explained a core trait in evolution. 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:02.920 But here I want to say something nice about creationist. 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:05.600 It's not a thing I often do so listen carefully. 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:10.840 I think they're right about one thing. I think they're 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:16.400 right that evolution is fundamentally hostile to religion. I've already 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:19.079 said that many individual evolutions, it's like the Pope, are 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:23.200 also religious. But I think they're deluding themselves. I believe 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:29.080 a true understanding of Darwinism is deeply corrosive to religious faith. 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:35.559 Now it may sound as though I'm about to preach atheism, 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:38.240 and I want to reassure you that that's not what 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:41.319 I'm going to do. In an audience as sophisticated as 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:45.240 this one, that would be preaching to the choir. No, 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:52.480 what I want to urge upon you. Instead, what I 0:10:52.520 --> 0:11:01.800 want to urge upon you is militant atheism. But that's 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:05.440 putting it too negatively. If I was a person who 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:08.240 were interested in preserving religious faith, I would be very 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:12.719 afraid of the positive power of evolutionary science. And it 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:16.400 is science generally, but evolution in particular, to inspire and 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:21.319 enthrall precisely because it is atheistic. 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:26.160 Evolution is at its core atheistic, and its most vocal 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:30.600 supporters are evolution zealots. Their belief in Darwin's theory is 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:35.120 unshakable and perhaps more importantly, they roundly reject the idea 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:38.760 of a creator. Mister Dawkins puts their position best. 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:42.560 In practice, what is an atheist? An atheist is just 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:47.199 somebody who feels about Yahweh the way any decent Christian 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:52.199 feels about Thaw or Baal or the Golden Calf. As 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:55.800 has been said before, we are all atheists about most 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:59.080 of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:01.240 of us just go one god further. 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:08.920 However, an astonishing thing began happening shortly after Richard Dawkins 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:12.600 gave his two thousand and two speech. Many influencers within 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:16.520 the same techie crowd that mocked Scott Adams's prediction began 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:19.520 to align with the concept that flips the theory of 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:24.000 evolution on its head. The concept is known as the 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:28.120 simulation argument, which argues that it's more likely than not 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:32.480 that you are living in a virtual reality again Scott. 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:35.360 Adams simulation theory for those who very few of you 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:39.160 who haven't heard it, is the idea that our reality, 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:42.880 as we experience it might be a computer type simulation 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:47.760 designed by a higher level species, and we think we're real, 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:52.760 but we're just created in a virtual reality kind of way, 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:55.000 and we're just programs. 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:59.280 Just imagine that someone wanted to create a computer simulation 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:03.240 of the real world. They first designed virtual people seeing 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:08.120 artificial intelligence that believe they're alive. The creator then places 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:11.120 those virtual people in a computer model that is an 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:15.720 exact replica of the physical world. This proposed simulated world 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:19.040 would be so real that the virtual people within it 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:23.240 believe they are in the real physical world. The simulated 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:26.640 world follows the same laws of the physical world. Computers 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:30.040 would just need to be powerful enough to perform the computations. 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:33.000 So the theory comes out that if it will ever. 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:35.400 Be possible to create a simulated world. 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:38.559 It's obvious that it is possible already, then it will 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:40.800 be done more than once, and it will probably be 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:41.800 done lots of times. 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:45.319 Some argue that once computers become powerful enough to make 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:49.160 simulated world, a bunch will be made, perhaps a billion 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:52.560 more simulated world than the one real, flesh and blood 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:55.839 based reality world. We'll explain why that would happen later. 0:13:56.280 --> 0:14:00.560 So the thinking is that there will always be way 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:05.840 more artificial worlds than there will ever be original worlds. 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:08.320 And if that were the case, that there were a 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:12.840 billion simulated worlds, each populated with seven billion virtual people 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:15.560 that think they are alive, but then just one real 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:18.320 physical world. It would be much more likely that you 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:21.600 are actually living in a simulated world because there are 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:25.520 just way more simulated world by a factor of a 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:28.400 billion to one. If this is the first time you're 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:31.720 hearing the simulation argument, I'm sure it sounds crazy, but 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:35.040 stay with us here, because this science fiction concept is 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:39.920 one that even God fearing Americans should understand. And why well, 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:44.000 because the simulation argument is creating a shift in science 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:47.680 and technology circles that can profoundly benefit people of faith. 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:57.800 Humans have actually been contemplating the possibility that we exist 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:01.200 in a simulated reality since at least the time of 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:05.400 the classical Greeks ty four hundred years ago, when followers 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:10.080 of Plato discussed it in the Academy in Athens. In 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:13.520 the Allegory of the Cave, Plato describes a scenario where 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:16.440 prisoners have been shackled in a cave since birth and 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:19.160 are forced to only look forward at a wall with 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:22.800 no knowledge of the outside world. They cannot move their 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:25.560 heads to look to their sides or behind them. They 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:29.440 can only look forward at the wall. A fire behind 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:32.560 them gives off a faint light, and occasionally people walk 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:35.960 by the fire with animals and various other objects, and 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:39.600 their shadows are projected on the wall. The only thing 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:43.600 the prisoners know are these shadows, and they give them names, 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:48.040 thinking that they're seeing real entities. Then one prisoner is 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:51.680 suddenly released and brought outside the cave for the first time. 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:54.960 The sun hurts his eyes and he is confused by 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:59.200 what he sees. All he's ever seen are shadows, not 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:03.560 these strange color shaped things. When he's told that everything 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:06.800 he sees is real and the shadows are just their reflection, 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:09.920 he has a hard time believing it. His mind is 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:14.120 still seeing the familiar shadows clearer than the actual objects. 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:18.000 But over time, his eyes adjust and he begins to 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:21.120 see the many objects around him and the sun, a 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:24.480 source of light that also creates the shadows that he's 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:28.520 witnessed his entire life. The prisoner returns to the cave 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:31.280 to inform the others about the shadows and the truth 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:35.520 behind their origin, but the prisoners violently resist his attempt 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:38.200 to free them, thinking that his journey has made him 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:43.000 lose his mind. Plato's Cave allegory suggests that what we 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:46.160 see in the physical world, like the shadows on the wall, 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:51.320 are flawed projections of reality. 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So the idea of 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:20.880 humans living in a simulated reality goes back at least 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:23.920 twenty four hundred years to the times of the classical Greeks. 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:27.280 But it wasn't until the nineteen hundreds that a science 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:30.800 fiction writer began popularizing the idea of people living in 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:33.879 a virtual reality, and he became so obsessed with the 0:19:33.880 --> 0:19:42.080 theme that it appeared to drive him mad. Science fiction 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:45.840 author Philip K. Dick began writing about simulated realities in 0:19:45.880 --> 0:19:49.000 the early nineteen fifties, delving into the topic with his 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:52.680 nineteen fifty three short story The Trouble with Bubbles. From 0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:56.040 then on, simulated realities became a recurring theme in his 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:59.119 writing for the better part of the next twenty five years. 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:02.000 When in nineteen seventy seven, he gave a speech at 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:04.159 a sci Fi convention in France. 0:20:04.400 --> 0:20:08.880 We are living in a computer programmed reality, and the 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:12.720 only clue we have to it is when some variable 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:18.560 is changed, and some alteration in our reality occurs, we 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:23.120 would have the overwhelming impression that we were reliving the 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:29.200 present deje vous, perhaps in precisely the same way, hearing 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:33.080 the same words, saying the same words. I submit that 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:36.640 these impressions are valid and significant, and I will even 0:20:36.760 --> 0:20:40.640 say this such an impression is a clue that at 0:20:40.640 --> 0:20:45.919 some past time point a variable was changed, reprogrammed as 0:20:45.960 --> 0:20:49.320 it were, and that because of this an alternative world 0:20:49.400 --> 0:20:50.160 branched off. 0:20:50.680 --> 0:20:53.840 At the time, Philip K. Dick was already a prolific 0:20:53.880 --> 0:20:57.160 writer with a cult following, but shortly after his death 0:20:57.160 --> 0:20:59.760 in nineteen eighty two, his work would become fodder for 0:20:59.840 --> 0:21:02.960 some of the biggest films of all time, including Blade Runner, 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:05.760 The Minority Report, A Scanner Darkly, The Man in the 0:21:05.840 --> 0:21:09.639 High Castle, The Adjustment Bureau, Screamers Paycheck. In a nineteen 0:21:09.720 --> 0:21:12.639 ninety film adaptation of his short story we Can Remember 0:21:12.680 --> 0:21:15.280 It for You Wholesale, better known to the world as 0:21:15.359 --> 0:21:17.160 Total Recall, what do you want? 0:21:17.359 --> 0:21:19.240 This is going to be very difficult for you to accept, 0:21:19.280 --> 0:21:23.240 mister quaid. I'm afraid you're not really standing here right now. 0:21:23.600 --> 0:21:26.800 In it, the main protagonist is wrestling with the possibility 0:21:26.920 --> 0:21:28.720 that he is living in a virtual reality. 0:21:30.040 --> 0:21:31.840 You know, Doug, it could affooled me. 0:21:32.080 --> 0:21:35.840 I'm quite serious, You're not here, and neither am I. 0:21:37.080 --> 0:21:41.960 It's amazing, Well are we at Recall? You're strapped into 0:21:41.960 --> 0:21:45.280 an implant chair and I'm monitoring you from the psychoprobe console. 0:21:46.000 --> 0:21:48.520 It was around the time of Total Recalls release that 0:21:48.600 --> 0:21:50.960 I was in college and was personally wrestling with the 0:21:51.080 --> 0:21:54.359 nature of reality. I was raised culturally Catholic, but for 0:21:54.480 --> 0:21:57.520 various reasons, our family had spent very little time attending 0:21:57.600 --> 0:22:00.879 church or analyzing the Bible. So while studying evolution in 0:22:00.920 --> 0:22:05.280 college with no theological base, I briefly flirted with atheism. 0:22:05.760 --> 0:22:08.680 But as I dug deeper and deeper into applied physics, 0:22:08.800 --> 0:22:11.280 my chosen field of study, I was in awe by 0:22:11.280 --> 0:22:15.000 the beautiful patterns found in nature. Of the same mathematical 0:22:15.000 --> 0:22:19.399 equations could be found in completely different scientific fields. The 0:22:19.520 --> 0:22:22.640 order of the world seemed like the craftsmanship of a designer. 0:22:23.119 --> 0:22:25.280 It's why I loved physics, because it was helping me 0:22:25.359 --> 0:22:27.720 find meaning in the world. I was on a personal 0:22:27.800 --> 0:22:30.360 exploration for the truth. When I went on to get 0:22:30.400 --> 0:22:33.600 my master's diving even deeper down the physics rabbit hole, 0:22:33.800 --> 0:22:37.919 the beautiful patterns persisted. The hand of God appeared everywhere, 0:22:38.240 --> 0:22:41.359 But having no familiarity with theology, I had nothing to 0:22:41.400 --> 0:22:45.160 build upon. Then I read a book called Hyperspace by 0:22:45.200 --> 0:22:48.960 theoretical physicists Michi Okaku, and in it he paraphrases a 0:22:48.960 --> 0:22:52.680 short story entitled The Last Question by science fiction writer 0:22:52.880 --> 0:22:58.600 and professor of biochemistry Isaac Asimov. The story oddly moved me. 0:22:58.960 --> 0:23:00.040 We'll paraphrase it here. 0:23:00.880 --> 0:23:05.520 The story begins in the year one. A massive computer 0:23:05.680 --> 0:23:09.920 called AC has solved Earth's energy problem by designing a 0:23:09.960 --> 0:23:13.439 solar satellite that harnesses the Sun's energy and shoots it 0:23:13.520 --> 0:23:17.639 back to the Earth. Two half drunk technicians monitoring the 0:23:17.640 --> 0:23:21.280 computer start arguing about the eventual end of the universe. 0:23:21.760 --> 0:23:24.560 One believes that it will go on forever. Another thinks 0:23:24.640 --> 0:23:27.720 its end is much more finite, So on a five 0:23:27.760 --> 0:23:31.040 dollars bet, they turn to AC to mediate their dispute. 0:23:31.720 --> 0:23:34.360 Can the death of the universe be avoided? They ask AC. 0:23:35.240 --> 0:23:38.680 After the computer considers the question, it returns with the. 0:23:38.640 --> 0:23:41.639 Answer insufficient data for a meaningful answer. 0:23:42.440 --> 0:23:46.160 Centuries go by, and in that time AC grows ever 0:23:46.240 --> 0:23:51.240 more powerful in size and computational capacity, becoming so complex 0:23:51.280 --> 0:23:55.560 that it maintains itself. AC solves the problem of traveling 0:23:55.640 --> 0:23:58.920 faster than the speed of light, and humans began colonizing 0:23:59.000 --> 0:24:02.359 other solar systems. As a family traveled to another solar 0:24:02.400 --> 0:24:06.800 system with AC, guiding their vehicle, The father nonchalantly mentioned 0:24:06.960 --> 0:24:09.680 that the son that powers AC will one day burn out. 0:24:10.280 --> 0:24:13.879 His children, startled by this notion, began to cry, begging 0:24:13.920 --> 0:24:16.960 their father not to let that happen. Attempting to calm 0:24:17.000 --> 0:24:19.760 them down, the father asked AC if entropy can be 0:24:19.800 --> 0:24:22.760 reversed so that the universe can avoid its slow death. 0:24:23.440 --> 0:24:26.080 But as the answer is ejected from AC, the father 0:24:26.200 --> 0:24:29.280 cut the thin strip of cellufilm carrying the response so 0:24:29.359 --> 0:24:32.560 that only he can see the answer. C said the father. 0:24:32.960 --> 0:24:35.480 The AC says it will take care of everything when 0:24:35.480 --> 0:24:38.280 the time comes, so don't worry. But as the kids 0:24:38.320 --> 0:24:41.280 looked away, the father read the message one more time 0:24:41.359 --> 0:24:46.000 before destroying it. It said insufficient data for a meaningful answer. 0:24:46.920 --> 0:24:49.760