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Are You Living In A Simulation? Consciousness, Quantum Physics, & The Matrix with Rizwan Virk

The Science of Success

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The Metaphysical Question of Matter or Consciousness

Bostrom: Is the primacy of matter or consciousness? And which one presupposes the other? Which one comes first and does consciousness arise out of matter? Or is it independent of matter? If you have an infinite number of simulations, then they would theoretically have enough information to create consciousness. But if you believe that consciousness exists outside of the physical has something beyond matter, then there's necessarily no way that those consciousnesses could arise within simulations.

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