#414 Are We Living in a Simulation? - Pat Flynn

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🗓️ 16 February 2022

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Are you a simulation created by some dude on his computer in his basement? In fact, couldn’t our whole universe be a simulated universe? Patrick Flynn, Catholic philosopher and host of The Pat Flynn Show and Philosophy for the People tackles the growing consensus among the smart people that we might be living in a simulation. Cy Kellett: Could we really be living in a simulation? Pat Flynn is next. Hello, and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. I’m Cy Kellett, your host. This week, we welcome a new affiliate,…

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0:00.0	Could we really be living in a simulation? Pat Flynn is next.
0:08.7	Hello and welcome to Focus the Catholic Cancer's podcast for living understanding and defending
0:13.0	your Catholic faith. I'm Sy Kelly at your host. And this week we welcome a new affiliate
0:18.6	apologist to Catholic dancers, an affiliate apologist. Someone who's going to work with us and
0:23.5	help us do what we do. And we're very happy to have Pat Flynn taking on that role here at Catholic
0:29.5	Cancer. So we asked Pat a question that's really been bothering me. Is it possible that I am
0:34.6	currently living inside of a computer? Well, you're probably hearing me through some kind of
0:39.6	computer somewhere. But am I actually living in one? Is the me that I think of as me not the product
0:47.1	of flesh and blood? But is that me the product of some computer program possibly running in the
0:53.8	basement of some advanced young man in a society that I will never see? Am I the product of something
1:01.2	like that? This has become a serious question. The philosopher Nick Bostrom raised it in 2003
1:07.5	in what has become probably the most talked about philosophical paper of the of this century.
1:15.6	It's just asked a simple question. Are you living in a computer simulation? Here's what Pat Flynn
1:21.4	had to say. Pat Flynn, welcome to Focus. Thanks for being with us.
1:32.3	Side is a pleasure to be here. Thanks so much for having me on. Yeah, and it's nice to talk to you
1:36.6	as an affiliate apologist of Catholic dancers. We've spoken before, but never in your role as an
1:42.8	affiliate apologist. So thanks for bringing your voice to our efforts. I think it's a great
1:50.0	marriage for us. I hope it is for you as well. Yeah, what an honor. Honestly, Si, you know, as
1:54.9	I myself journeyed to the Catholic faith, Catholic answers played a significant role answered a lot
2:00.3	of important questions for me. So I hope that I can just give a little something in return.
2:04.4	We'll talk in a minute about your podcast philosophy for the people. Because I want people to
2:09.6	find that. But we pose the question to you now that the Great Larry King posed to the smartest man
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