Paramahansa Yogananda used the metaphor of a movie projector in the 1920s to explain the world's illusory nature.
Today, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) would be a more apt metaphor, especially with younger generations.
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Rizwan Virk is an entrepreneur, video game pioneer, film producer, computer scientist, and author of several books, among them "The Simulation Hypothesis" and "The Simulated Multiverse."