Welcome back to Shemus Pouperi. I'm Joe Heschmire. I don't know why there aren't more people talking about the fact that right now,

that right now some of the smartest, most influential, and wealthiest people on earth literally don't think that we're alive right now.

I'm referring, of course, to the theory that we're all living in a simulation. Now, for many of us, that theory, this idea that we don't exist,

it seems self-evidentially silly.

If we've thought about the idea at all,

chances are, it's just been in the realm of fiction.

Right now, we're inside a computer program.

Is it really so hard to believe?

Implants, those aren't your memories. There's somebody else's.

It exists now only as part of a neural interactive simulation that we call the matrix.

You've been living in a dream world, Neo.

But in reality, the sort of simulation theory being propagated today

goes even further than the kind of things we might have seen from movies like Blade Runner or The Matrix.

Because in Blade Runner, the replicants don't know that they're not real.

They're just robots, but they're operating in the real world.

In The Matrix, Neo's living in a simulation, but he still has a real body out there in the real world.

It's more like the state of somebody dreaming.

But what Joe Rogan, Elon Musk, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and so many other people today are arguing for,

is that you and I literally don't exist.

We have no bodies in any reality.

We're just delusional computer code.

So how have so many smart people ended up here?

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