"The world that you're seeing isn't the true world. All of this that I'm seeing right now was just a virtual reality. It's like you're born with headset on playing a video game. That's your reality. Bu..."

"do you think that the listeners of this show, the people listening right now, understand the nature of reality and the world that they're looking at and see? >> I think that no one, even the most adva..."

">> What is it that you believe is the big sort of misconception about how we perceive reality? >> Well, most of us think of reality as whatever is inside space and time. We actually know that space-ti..."

">> So, do you believe that? Do you believe that everything I'm experiencing and seeing now is basically like equivalent to me wearing a virtual reality headset, and that there's something beyond the v..."

">> So, everything I see right now is a projection that I've made on the world, my world, in order to help me to survive. And my brain is not showing me things that it doesn't think I need to see becau..."

"eyes and you removed my ears and my nose and my ability to sense, you know, temperature and things like that. All of my senses. I thought If I was the only person on Earth and you removed all of my se..."

">> In a TED Talk that you did in 2000 in the 2000s, you talked about simulations that you ran to prove that I guess in in in part that I'm only seeing things that will help me to survive as a creature..."

"what does this all mean for the nature of how one should understand their life? Because I guess the way the way that we perceive the world causes us so much suffering or joy, depending on how we perce..."

">> And is there a way for me to understand who I am? Or is the closest you've found meditation? I know you've meditated for 20 years or something. >> I I should say I should be a little careful about ..."

">> Do you think much about simulation theory? I've had lots of dinner parties recently and conversations over dinner about simulation theory and it always gets very very interesting. Um what are your ..."

">> When you ask people what the meaning of their life is they'll often say things like it is maybe they'll say to raise children, maybe they'll say they want to improve humanity, they want to cure a d..."

">> And did someone or something create that one consciousness? >> Now I'm above my pay grade. It's uh That's a No, no, no, that's of course the right question. And it asks for an explanation. And the ..."

"gods in the religious context the best answer that you have would say that effectively we are god. The god that we we refer to. We are the transcendent power that goes beyond description and >> Right...."

">> Do you think Jesus was really divine in any Presuming you think this was a real individual. And do you think he was divine beyond beyond me and you in some respect? >> Not beyond me and you. But yo..."

">> Starting in January 2020, you did have a proverbial gun held to your head in in a way because you contracted COVID and went through and are still going through some pretty um serious health complic..."

"track. >> What does this mean for grief? So many people are losing loved ones as we speak or are contending with the reality that they are going to lose a loved one. What does it mean for the nature o..."

">> Do you believe when we I did kind of ask you this earlier, but I was just looking at some of the research around how many people talk about these near-death experiences. Specifically when they more..."

"would this transcendent power create organisms or perspectives that end up suffering, that end up in the worst of places, the concentration camp, the illness, the typhoid, the starvation? Why would su..."

"in the following so I think we can start with a theory of conscious agents. I just gave presented a talk um Friday and we we proposed what light is. We proposed why the speed of light is the same in a..."

">> Is there a concern that believing these things can make one go mad? I think sometimes think that uh thinking very deeply about who we are, why we're here, how we got here sometimes makes me I don't..."

">> Is this what time travel >> This this would be like this would appear like immediate time travel or immediate immediate space travel. >> Is there anything within the laws of physics that tells you ..."

"it also speaks to when we talk about people that have various mental illnesses like schizophrenia that are experiencing the world entirely differently, um it raises big questions about what consciousn..."

"No, it means you're infinite and and this is just one of the games you're playing and and you're you're having and and enjoy it. And and enjoy and don't try to get your identity from this game. You yo..."

"they're computing lots of correlations. Beautiful what they can do. It's amazing what you can do with correlations. But um they're not they're not truly intelligent. There's um some work by Karl Frist..."

"sounds really good, but what does it build? Nothing. Physical stuff say, oh, I'm we maybe don't need the spiritual stuff and look what they they give us our laptops and electricity and so but what if ..."