Our Burning Questions – Simulation Debate

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🗓️ 20 March 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Are we living inside a computer simulation? Is artificial intelligence truly conscious? And what happens to us when we die? Neil deGrasse Tyson and cohost’s Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly tackle more questions from inside the StarTalk team.

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0:00.0	Coming up, burning questions asked of me by the StarTalk team.
0:04.4	Gary, am I supposed to be some ointment that'll soothe the burning sensations they feel?
0:09.0	I think you should be, yes.
0:11.2	Twice a day.
0:14.6	Call me in the morning.
0:16.3	Coming up, StarTalk, special edition.
0:20.5	Welcome to StarTalk. Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:28.8	StarTalk begins right now.
0:33.3	This is StarTalk Special Edition.
0:36.7	Neil DeGrasse Tyson here, you're a personal astrophysicist.
0:39.9	Special edition means I got Gary O'Reilly right here.
0:43.4	How you doing, Gary?
0:44.2	I'm good, thank you, Neil.
0:45.5	Yes, recently an official American citizen.
0:48.3	Congratulations.
0:49.1	Yeah, and we've recently been watching the Winter Olympics,
0:52.0	and I'm pleased to say, I enjoy being an American
0:54.4	citizen because we win way more gold than the Brits.
0:59.6	That's, yeah, we also have multiples of the population and the resources, but yeah, okay.
1:06.0	And Chuck, I got you here. How you doing, man?
1:07.9	Always great, man. Feeling good.
1:10.1	Very nice. Very nice. So, you know, man? Always great, man. Feeling good. Very nice.
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