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Creating Aliens in a Lab - Dr. Lee Cronin, University of Glasglow

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The Importance of Simulating God

Hoffman is trying to calculate God by doing summations of different conscious agents. I think, I think that's kind of trickery. It speaks intuitively to my understanding of God because I remember for a long time. He's hacking your intuition. But then when you falsify that, you see that's incorrect. So the fact that he's able to describe it this way doesn't necessarily explain it. And I also think that it's fundamentally a simulation theory. The world that we experience is encoded by something that lies beyond it. What lies beyond it? If not just a computer that's representing what we have because you get to the bottom of it and physics will tell you

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