welcome to alltime scary today we're
checking out five reasons we might be
living inside a simulation as ridiculous
as it might sound it's entirely possible
that we are all living inside a
simulated reality and that everything
around us is nothing more than lines of
advanced computer code here are all the
topics we're going to be discussing
today each one is going to get
progressively weirder and more intense
so stick around until the very end you
don't want to miss a single topic sit
back relax and let's look at reality
from a different perspective
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as it stands now evidence keeps building
to support the theory that we live
inside of a simulation over the course
of this video you'll hear a lot of
evidence but what might be more
troubling is the lack of evidence
against the simulation Theory evidence
that proves the universe is in fact real
in fact we can't currently prove that
all of this isn't a simulation New York
University philosopher David schmers
doubts its possible to prove that we
don't live inside of a simulation he
says you're not going to get proof that
we're not living in a simulation because
any evidence that we get could be
simulated meaning if the simulation
doesn't want us to know something we
aren't going to know it interestingly
enough the probability of us living in a
simulation versus reality has actually
been calculated thanks to David Kipping
an assistant professor of astronomy at
Columbia University and Mathematics way
above my pay grade we currently sit at
50/50 odds one half that this is the
base Baseline reality and the other half
that this is not Kipping goes on to say
the day we invent that technology and
that technology being the ability to
create simulations ourselves it flips
the odds from 50/50 to us almost
certainly not being real according to
these calculations it'd be a very
strange celebration of our genius that
day yeah it only gets worse from
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here
recently a friend and I randomly had a
conversation about Princess Diana later
that day a person I had never seen
before or since just so happened to walk
by wearing a Princess Diana shirt was
this simply a coincidence just an
extremely rare and remarkable
circumstance without an apparent causal
connection perhaps I only noticed it
because I talked about her earlier in
the day nevertheless coincidences like
this stand out and I'm sure all of you
have experienced some of them yourself
now is this evidence of the simulation
updating to more close ly align with our
thoughts and preferences it's like when
you learn a new word and then you hear
it everywhere or you get a new car that
you've never had before and then you see
it all over the place the amount of
coincidences humans come across is at
the very least questionable it strikes
me as odd that so many coincidences all
occurred on this single planet we're
perfectly safe in the habitable zone
with the perfect mixture in our
atmosphere to sustain us here's another
one during a total solar eclipse the
moon lines up exactly with the Sun
obscuring it completely that doesn't
sound too remarkable or coincidental
Until you realize that the sun is 400
times larger than the moon and amazingly
enough the Moon is 400 times further
away from the sun it's mathematically
stunning that it aligns so perfectly or
what about the fact that when water
freezes it becomes less dense again this
doesn't sound too remarkably
coincidental but the fact is this detail
has allowed all life on Earth to survive
water covers most of the Earth and and
chemically it is one of the strangest
other substances get more dense when
they're frozen but liquid water is the
opposite because of this when water
turns to ice it floats why does this
matter at all well if ice didn't float
but instead sank to the bottom all water
would eventually have frozen over and
killed all life within it the multitude
of ice ages this planet has gone through
would have killed all life in land and
in water our Evolution would have
completely changed or not happened at
all if not for this strange
detail another example is how the single
highest point on Earth Mount Everest
amazingly enough has the lowest oxygen
levels that human life can tolerate it's
as if it was exactly measured out to
perfectly allow for humans to climb it
now I could go on and on about the
interesting coincidences and
synchronicities that our reality has to
offer so let's instead in this section
with one more personal example of mine
it was about a sushi knife I've never
owned one of these tools before nor did
I know they existed until I randomly had
a dream about finding one in my kitchen
dra drawer waking up I thought that's
weird and random I wonder if that
thing's real now this thought never left
my brain I didn't say it out loud I
don't watch any cooking shows I didn't
search up any dream meetings it was just
a dream and a thought well later that
day I got an ad on Twitter for a sushi
knife I I can't explain this how did I
go from never hearing of talking about
or using an object to dreaming about it
and then getting an ad for it this is
something I did not know existed until I
had a dream and I thought it was
something I made up I honestly have no
idea the world has so many strange
coincidences and synchronicities it
really makes you
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wonder as we learn more and more about
our world and the universe the more it
appears to be based on mathematical laws
for example look at the Fibonacci
sequence and the golden ratio it's found
in nearly everything around us
Max tegmark a cosmologist at MIT says if
I were a character in a computer game I
would also discover eventually that the
rules seemed completely rigid and
mathematical and that it just reflects
the computer code in which it was
written Max's comments might sound a
little out there but over time it's been
winning over other Brilliant Minds one
such example is James Gates a
theoretical physicist at the University
of Maryland James said in my research I
found this very strange thing I was
driven to error correct ing codes they
what make browsers work so why were they
in the equations I was studying about
quirks and electrons and super symmetry
this brought me back to the Stark
realization that I could no longer say
people like Max are crazy a lot of
Brilliant Minds are starting to realize
that just as a video game is programmed
and structured logically our world is
very much the same as humans become more
intelligent and knowledge continues to
amass the rules of our reality become
more
apparent delving deeper into the concept
that our reality is structured in a very
rigid and mathematical way what are some
of these limitations of reality let's
talk about a few of them the first is
the speed of light in a vacuum given to
us by Einstein's theory of special
relativity this is essentially the speed
limit of the universe but that begs the
question why why is there a limit to the
speed in which light can travel if we
remove ourselves from this question for
a second and return to the idea of video
games a potential answer arises video
games are only limited by the weakest
element running them and underperforming
CPU a bottleneck graphics processor a
limitation of ram a poorly optimized
engine Etc in all of gaming these
weakest elements create artificial
limitations for example loading screens
draw distance or Texture ppin these are
workarounds that are built in to
accommodate the limitations now let's
bring it all together the speed of light
is the maximum speed limit of our
universe because reality can't be
rendered in less time than that if we
were to travel faster than the speed of
light we would reach a part of our
universe that hasn't been rendered yet
the speed of light is an imposed
limitation to keep the reality of well
reality if this is indeed potentially an
arbitrary number set by the creators of
the simulation to keep the simulation
running properly then one can assume
that we can't travel faster than that
because the simulation would break and
the reality of this reality would
collapse essentially the game would
crash
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Consciousness is defined as the state of
being awake and aware of one's
surroundings it's one of the most
familiar parts of all of us and yet also
the most mysterious since the dawn of
time philosophers have asked what is the
purpose of Consciousness why do we need
Consciousness these deep philosophical
questions have challenged the greatest
Minds throughout history and thanks to
the simulation Theory we might actually
understand its purpose and why we need
it Consciousness is an interface between
the self and the universe using all of
our senses the only reasonable
explanation for consciousness's
existence is that it is there to be an
experience keep in mind that
Consciousness doesn't provide an
evolutionary advantage that we know of
so what is the purpose of it either
there is a role of Consciousness at work
that we don't know and haven't theorized
yet or the experience that Consciousness
provides as a function we serve as in a
product we create an experience we
generate as human beings we are the ones
creating this experience and that is
what Consciousness is now this is where
things get uncomfortable and again if
you're kind of lost just stick with me
in philosophy aqualia is defined as an
individual instance of subjective
conscious experience put simply aqualia
is the breeze of wind against your face
the taste of water the excitement we
feel when great news happens as well as
the fear created by bad news all these
experiences of Consciousness are what we
produce and an individual experience is
called a qualia as I mentioned earlier
Consciousness is something that we
create that is not necessarily for us
who do we create this product for who
receives these created qualia algorithms
that we produce we don't know but what
we do know is that we are creating this
Consciousness this experience and that
we apparently don't have any use for it
so the only logical next step is to
surmise that this product serves
something else which begs the unsettling
question of who or what is this product
for if you haven't already made the
connection to the simulation Theory yet
let's break it down in the simplest way
possible when you are playing a video
game let's say Grand Theft Auto is the
character in the game you're playing as
experiencing qualia or is it
ourselves they do what we want them to
do and they act out the actions that we
tell them to do and by extension we are
gaining an experience through them that
is the qualia they aren't gaining it we
are the video game character goes
through an experience but their
experience is very different from the
experience we the player receive that
space between the character and the game
and us the player exist in this gray
area where experiences of the player and
experiences of the character combined to
form some type of Consciousness this is
what the simulation Theory believes
Consciousness is consciousness is that
strange connection between us the
guiding voice in our head and the
experiences we live and feel on a
day-to-day basis it's the product we
produce for whatever is on the other
side of the
simulation that product that we produce
we have a very similar connection to
that in games today it's extremely
rudimentary but we are already seeing
technology begin to blur the boundary
between us when riding in a roller
coaster as a character in a VR game we
feel the gravity of the roller coaster
but where is this gravity coming from it
isn't real and yet it is it exists
somewhere in the space between the
character that is riding the roller
coaster in the game and our minds
occupying the mind of the character the
gray space between us that is
consciousness it's easy to imagine how
in the future this experience will
become grander more experiences more
feelings more qualia generated for us
video games are a trillion dollar
industry currently and this is all based
on the small amounts of qualia we
experience from them today just imagine
the future 10 years from now 100 years
from now a th000 years from now the
demand is there the desire is there the
money is there and the interest is there
it's inevitable based on the simulation
Theory the simplest explanation for the
existence of Consciousness is that it is
an experience being created by our
bodies and actions but not for us just
like a video game we create incredible
outputs of sensory experience qualia
generating machines and just like a
video game our input our product is most
likely for the benefit of someone or
something else experiencing our lives
through
us
DNA is a self-replicating material that
is present in nearly all living
organisms DNA is in simple terms
Nature's hard drive capable of storing
replicating and transmitting massive
amounts of information everything from
your physical features to your
likelihood of dying from a certain
disease it's the incredible secret
behind life and for as much as we know
about it there is still so much more
that we don't researchers in New York
incredibly found a way to use DNA like
an actual computer's hard drive by
success sucessfully storing replicating
and retrieving several digital files and
no this isn't a joke these scientists
were able to transfer Real World
information into binary code and with
the help of a DNA constructing startup
company they were able to implant that
data into DNA as well as retrieve it
amazingly enough this means that DNA is
not only storage for biological data but
in fact a form of digital storage for
any data it is estimated that one gram
of DNA can hold up to 215 pedabytes
which is equivalent to 215,000 terabytes
or 225 million gabt essentially DNA is
the world's greatest storage device and
we are walking around with massive hard
drives of data and Legacy within us DNA
is in a way our own personal memory card
for whatever this game of Life Is But it
somehow gets even crazier from here that
data and information that they were able
to place inside of and retrieve from DNA
wasn't all they tested in fact they also
placed malicious computer code into
those physical strands of DNA their aim
was to show that computers working in
gene sequence ing or vulnerable to
attack and that a malicious code
implanted in DNA could in fact attack
those computers but they might have also
inadvertently revealed that what we
perceive to be biological reality is in
fact computer code our very DNA has the
capability of carrying malicious
computer codes and viruses that could
infect other computers and perhaps even
one day other humans it really makes you
wonder about all of this life existence
the simulation Theory the very thing
that constructs us the DNA inside of our
cells can store and run computer code as
well as viruses what exactly are we are
we nothing more than Advanced Computer
code in a simulated reality I'm not here
to convince anyone of anything I'm
simply exploring the possible reasons we
could be living inside a simulation let
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