David Chalmers: The Matrix is REAL! (#370)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

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🗓️ 23 November 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Is the Matrix really real? And if so, which pill would David Chalmers take? Join us for a mind-bending journey through virtual worlds, human consciousness, technology, philosophy, and religion, and find out! David Chalmers is an Australian philosopher and cognitive scientist specializing in the areas of philosophy of mind and philosophy of language. He is a Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science at New York University and co-director of NYU's Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness (along with Ned Block). Key Takeaways: Intro (00:00) Judging the book by its cover (01:49) Defining the hard problem of consciousness (04:50) Why is there tension between physics and philosophy (07:20) The Chalmers equation for the simulation hypothesis? (11:57) What have we learned about consciousness from computer analogs? (21:24) AI physicists (32:08) What is it from bit? Or is that bit from it? (40:10) What does it take for the maker of the simulation to be god or godlike? (47:50) Why create the world (or the simulation)? (53:49) Can there be a substrate-free creator (simulator)? (57:43) Why do you claim we can't know if we are in a simulation? (1:06:32) Would you take the red pill? (1:08:41) Outro (1:16:43) — Additional resources: 📢 Ownership of your health starts with AG1. Try AG1 and get a FREE 1-year supply of Vitamin D3K2 and 5 FREE AG1 Travel Packs with your first purchase 👉 https://drinkag1.com/impossible 📚 Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy by David Chalmers: https://a.co/d/3pzidPf ➡️ Follow me on your fav platforms: ✖️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 🔔 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 📝 Join my mailing list: https://briankeating.com/mailing_list ✍️ Check out my blog: https://briankeating.com/blog.php 🎙️ Follow my podcast: https://briankeating.com/podcast — Into the Impossible with Brian Keating is a podcast dedicated to all those who want to explore the universe within and beyond the known. Make sure to follow so you never miss an episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I think the human brain is a big complex machine.
0:03.0	It's an amazing machine.
0:04.2	It's a creative machine, but it's still made up of these neurons,
0:08.0	which appear to be computational units hooked up in amazing ways.
0:12.6	The imagination, as far as we can tell,
0:14.6	is itself a kind of simulation.
0:17.4	When we imagine things, when Einstein was imagining things
0:20.3	in free fall, he was running a kind of simulation himself running on this
0:25.4	incredible computer which is far more sophisticated than any computer that we
0:30.0	ourselves have developed to date but you know AI is moving fast. I can't believe
0:34.8	where it is now compared to where it was 10 years ago. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
0:47.0	Open the pod bay doors.
0:52.0	I am your fearful host, Professor Brian Keating of the Arthur C. Clark Center for Human Imagination, talking with a renowned intellect. And this is a real treat when I found out that his new book was coming out I just
1:06.3	had to get him and it is none other than Professor David Chalmers who first formulated
1:11.6	the problem of the hard problem of consciousness
1:13.6	which we're going to get to in a paper facing up to the problem of
1:16.6	consciousness and way back in 1995 expanded upon it in his wonderful book
1:21.4	the conscious mind 96 his works are provocative and fluency in his wonderful book, The Conscious Mind, 96.
1:23.6	His works are provocative, influential,
1:25.8	and some of the greatest luminaries of all time,
1:29.3	including past guest Stephen Pinker,
1:31.3	have called it so praiseworthy and his claim and
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