Bunker Gold: Enter the Matrix – Are we living in a simulation?

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🗓️ 30 December 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Here’s another throwback Bunker Gold to tide you over to next year… How do you know the world is real? How do I know I’m real? As virtual worlds expand, our concepts of reality warp. NYU philosopher David Chalmers – author of Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy – talks to Ros Taylor about the etiquette of virtual living, why video game characters deserve moral rights, and how we can know what we think we know. “Simulated beings could end up outnumbering non-simulated beings. So the odds that YOU are simulated could be high…” “If we’re living in a simulation, all this is still real – and our lives are still full of meaning.” https://www.patreon.com/bunkercast Presented by Ros Taylor and Arthur Snell. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers: Jelena Sofronijevic and Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:24.3	Hello I'm Andrew Harrison or am I perhaps I'm an AI generated facsimile of a human and
1:29.7	you are a disembodied mind experiencing a simulation of the real world.
1:34.0	The idea that the world we live in is an illusion runs from the Matrix and Philip K
1:37.1	Dick all the way back to Plato.
1:39.3	From last June here's Ros Taylor talking to NYU philosophy professor David Chalmers in Enter the Matrix.
1:45.6	I'll be living in a simulation. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Hello and welcome to the bunker I'm Ros Taylor.
2:08.0	Here you are listening to the bunker, maybe walking the dog or cooking dinner. But how do you know the dog is real?
2:14.7	Am I real? Or just a simulated voice? Did the world where experiencing a rise spontaneously?
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