How to Know If We're in A Simulation or Not. [Everything is Numbers!]

In this video we look at the simulation hypothesis and the question of whether we are living in a simulation. There are some surprising answers in an under explored source of knowledge: numerology. And as we dig deeper, we find that our world is governed by numbers.
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How do we know if our experiences are real?
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It’s an age old philosophical question. The simulation hypothesis is the proposal that all of reality, including the Earth and the rest of the universe, could in fact be an artificial computer program.
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Elon Musk thinks it’s not only possible, but that it’s very likely we’re living in a simulation. And his logic goes like this:
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First of all, the universe is 13.8 billion years old. But human civilization, as we know it, is only about 10,000 years old. Which is just a tiny fraction of the age of universe.
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Secondly 40 years ago, we had video games like pong. Which was basically 2 moving rectangles and a dot. But today, we have immersive photorealistic 3D graphics, with millions of people playing, all at the same time. And it’s only getting better, every year.
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Third, if we assume any rate of improvement at all, even a 1% improvement per year, then eventually, we should reach a point where we can’t tell these simulations apart from reality. It might happen 100 years from now. It might happen 1,000 years from now. But either way, it’s almost certain, that on a long enough timeline, we WILL eventually reach that point. Unless something stops us from getting there. Like an extinction event.
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Fourth, if we ever did gain the technology to build a simulation, then we’d be able to build many, many simulations.
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And because there’s only ONE base reality, the odds that we’re living in one of the millions of possible simulated worlds, is much higher than the odds that we’re living in the REAL world.
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Whether or not you agree, Elon Musk isn’t alone here. A lot of smart people believe that the simulation hypothesis is true: from computer scientist Rizwan Virk, to physicist Max Tegmark. We also look at contributions from Erwin Schrödinger and Sylvester James Gates Jr.
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But the more we explore these ideas, the more it looks like our entire universe, is governed by numbers. Because the closer we look at things that seem non-mathematical - the more clear it becomes that they too can be understood through numbers. And although this might seem like a new idea, its roots can be traced back to an ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician: Pythagoras.
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TIMESTAMPS
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00:00 - Prologue
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00:47 - The Simulation Hypothesis
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03:33 - Rizwan Virk on simulations and numbers
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07:43 - Max Tegmark on simulation and numbers
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09:28 - Pythagoras and the world of numbers
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10:11 - The Transmigration of Souls and Simulations
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11:25 - Epilogue
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