Oct 12, 2026 · 28 min · 11 segments
Beth takes Elon's one-in-billions claim that this isn't base reality and shows how simulation theory is the rare bridge between the hard materialists and the hard mystics. She runs the biggest minds…
AI, quantum physics, and mystics all agree that our world isn't a physical world at all but we are living in a simulation we have the two biggest problems in science the hard problem of consciousness you've heard that one we're going to cover and get to david chalmers later but we also have the hard problem
of matter
Oh, yes.
Neither.
We don't know what its intrinsic value is.
What is its fundamental substance? We can't say it.
And for that reason, we have people like Elon Musk saying, guys, the chances of us being in a normal base reality that we all act and take it in every day as it is.
No, no, there's a one in billions chance that this is base reality.
Oh, OK.
What do you think? Well, I think it's one in billions.
OK.
meaning we have a billion more times more likely that we are in a virtual simulation.
Today's topic is fascinating because I'm going to state at the top, it bridges two opposing worlds of materialism, scientism.
We're all academia's materialist where they don't believe in God, but matter is the fundamental substance.
And it bridges in with idealist people that believe in God and a lot of people that are into technology.
So it's a topic of philosophy, metaphysics, physics, theology, spirituality, you know, religion, however you want to do that.
There's tons of episodes on the simulation theory.
This one, I want to talk about what I really, a different way of looking at it, right? NPCs, RPGs, we're going to explore a little bit of that at the top.
But I want to dive into... all of the top thinkers on the simulation theory or those that don't like it at all and really hold their feet to the fire of how do they see simulation theory? What's their argument for it, right? Who's behind it? What is it and how would it work if it is true? And I think by exploring five different camps, you might have a better idea of, okay, I've got this thing in the bucket.
Next time I hear simulation theory, I can get it.
Why I have always loved it.
If you're having those common problems, the biggest philosophical questions today, you know, why does God permit suffering? And, you know, all these, all the big questions really can be answered within the gaming and simulation theory.
This has been a discussion for over 2,000 years, right? And as we've progressed forward with technology, how they describe it to you changes with time, right? Current technology that's easy to think about this today, which is a drone, right? Okay, so you, I'm going to send you to the absolute reality.
It's outside of space-time, right? And you're going to be the drone pilot, okay? So your soul...
AI, quantum physics, and mystics all agree that our world isn't a physical world at all but we are living in a simulation we have the two biggest problems in science the hard problem of consciousness you've heard that one we're going to cover and get to david chalmers later but we also have the hard problem
of matter
Oh, yes.
Neither.
We don't know what its intrinsic value is.
What is its fundamental substance? We can't say it.
And for that reason, we have people like Elon Musk saying, guys, the chances of us being in a normal base reality that we all act and take it in every day as it is.
No, no, there's a one in billions chance that this is base reality.
Oh, OK.
What do you think? Well, I think it's one in billions.
OK.
meaning we have a billion more times more likely that we are in a virtual simulation.
Today's topic is fascinating because I'm going to state at the top, it bridges two opposing worlds of materialism, scientism.
We're all academia's materialist where they don't believe in God, but matter is the fundamental substance.
And it bridges in with idealist people that believe in God and a lot of people that are into technology.
So it's a topic of philosophy, metaphysics, physics, theology, spirituality, you know, religion, however you want to do that.
There's tons of episodes on the simulation theory.
This one, I want to talk about what I really, a different way of looking at it, right? NPCs, RPGs, we're going to explore a little bit of that at the top.
But I want to dive into... all of the top thinkers on the simulation theory or those that don't like it at all and really hold their feet to the fire of how do they see simulation theory? What's their argument for it, right? Who's behind it? What is it and how would it work if it is true? And I think by exploring five different camps, you might have a better idea of, okay, I've got this thing in the bucket.
Next time I hear simulation theory, I can get it.
Why I have always loved it.
If you're having those common problems, the biggest philosophical questions today, you know, why does God permit suffering? And, you know, all these, all the big questions really can be answered within the gaming and simulation theory.
This has been a discussion for over 2,000 years, right? And as we've progressed forward with technology, how they describe it to you changes with time, right? Current technology that's easy to think about this today, which is a drone, right? Okay, so you, I'm going to send you to the absolute reality.
It's outside of space-time, right? And you're going to be the drone pilot, okay? So your soul...
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