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Episode 5: The Avengers, Time Travel, and The Deutsch Proposition

The Theory of Anything

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Is It Possible to Simulate Time Travel in Virtual Reality?

Virtual reality has a very special concept in Deutsch's worldview because of the Turing principle which means everything can be simulated on a computer. Virtual reality for Deutsch would be kind of the matrix type where you're directly putting impulses into the brain so it looks completely real and affects you just like a real world. time travel may seem really strange at first but virtual reality can also render things that aren't physically possible with different physics.

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