261. Jim Al-Khalili on the Joy of Science
The Michael Shermer Show
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Is There Any Way to Test This?
i just had david chalmers on the budguest and e he has a 500 page book defending this thesis. It's one of these thought experiments, you know, werei the comperticant principle,. We're not special or in the mill f the bell curve. People should be ahead of us. Look at what we've done with computers in a century. Carry that ot a thousand centuries or a million centuries, and you'd have a a vr that's indistinguishable from our reality. And then t the character, as he walks out, he says, computer, stop programme. Itis like, ok, i guess i do. Esa ha, ha, ha
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