
Listener Questions: photon information, simulated Universes and Daniel's fantasy science budget
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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What Is Consciousness?
Is it possible that i'm nothing more than information in some giant, incredibly complicated computer capable simulating an entire universe? That's a pretty big idea to hold in your head. And maybe it makes you a little queezy to wonder, like, who's out there, who's programming the universe? But it also kind of makes sense in some way, because there is a similarity to the structure of a computer programme and the structure of a universe. Writing universe seems to follow rules like, for reasons we don't really understand, the universe is describable using mathematical, physical laws. Those physical laws don't seem to change. You do an experiment to day, and you do the
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