Oct 17, 2026 · 7 min · 6 segments
Cero means "Zero" in Spanish. Uploaded 12-07-19 Business was my gateway drug to philosophy and understanding humans. In these short podcasts, let's talk black holes, computing, physics, business…
Varun MayyaHost
And my main reasoning for this is because I looked at gaming evolve and I realized that most games today, like if you look at a GTA, which released a few years ago, it's getting very photorealistic.
And I said, "Hey, how long until this becomes good enough for us to replicate an entire civilization?" And we already do it with Sims or SimCity.
But over time and, you know, with a little bit of wisdom and maturity, I realized that we might not be living in a simulation after all because claiming that we live in a recursive simulation brings in the same problems as that of a God.
My main problem with that of a God, and this is my absolute number one main problem, is that, is the question of where did God come from? If you just claim that humans couldn't have just come up randomly or creatures living on Earth couldn't have randomly come up or the universe couldn't have randomly spawned, you, you introduce the element of a God and then say God made all this happen.
But in my mind, the complexity to create the universe we live in today, say, say that complexity is X, then the complexity of a God, which is a creature that's capable of creating a universe, would be X plus something.
It is more complex to create a God that made a universe than a universe itself, right? So it brought me back to my same problem, which is where did God come from? Did He just spawn one day? Did He just, you know, wake up and say, "Oh, you know, I run the entire universe"? Because if that is possible, then it's also possible that the universe just spawned one day randomly through the Big Bang, or this universe just spawned randomly one day.
Um, and that's my main problem with the simulation argument, which is if somebody simulated us, and say it's a bunch of aliens that are sitting and, you know, making all of this happen on a computer, then where did they come from? And if you answer that question and you say, "Hey, they were simulated too," then you enter this recursive loop where you have to keep going upwards, and then eventually you will stop at that first simulation and then say, "Where did the first simulators come from, the people who are unsimulated?" And which is the same problem with God, because if you say that, you know, God created the universe and you say, "Okay, some other god created this god," then you have to keep climbing upwards.
And, you know, my answer to this question now, or my answer to this situation now, is that we live in a computer.
When I say, you know, there is nothing, people don't understand the meaning of the word nothingness.
Nothingness doesn't mean, you know, it's some black, spacious place without, you know, without any humans or, or anything or any stars.
It's an unfathomable concept, right? Until you actually really put your mind to thinking about it.
If, um, there's a piece of paper and I cut a hole in the middle, it doesn't mean that there's nothing there.
But for you to actually make nothing there, then you need to take the pieces of paper on the left and the right and stitch it together, and then the gap becomes nothing, right? But in the real world, it means the gap is gone, right? So what I believe is that there was, there is never a concept such as nothing, right? There's no such thing as nothing.
Um, which also means that what has existed has always existed, right? So I believe the nature of reality as we s- speak about it today is that of a computer.
The goal of science is to prove that the entire universe works according to logic, cause and effect.
It's a computer, right? And the more you study about computers, the more I study about the world, the more I study about physics, the more I study about astrophysics, I realize the world or the universe is a computer that's generating many different types of simulations, and there was never anything apart from it.
And my main reasoning for this is because I looked at gaming evolve and I realized that most games today, like if you look at a GTA, which released a few years ago, it's getting very photorealistic.
And I said, "Hey, how long until this becomes good enough for us to replicate an entire civilization?" And we already do it with Sims or SimCity.
But over time and, you know, with a little bit of wisdom and maturity, I realized that we might not be living in a simulation after all because claiming that we live in a recursive simulation brings in the same problems as that of a God.
My main problem with that of a God, and this is my absolute number one main problem, is that, is the question of where did God come from? If you just claim that humans couldn't have just come up randomly or creatures living on Earth couldn't have randomly come up or the universe couldn't have randomly spawned, you, you introduce the element of a God and then say God made all this happen.
But in my mind, the complexity to create the universe we live in today, say, say that complexity is X, then the complexity of a God, which is a creature that's capable of creating a universe, would be X plus something.
It is more complex to create a God that made a universe than a universe itself, right? So it brought me back to my same problem, which is where did God come from? Did He just spawn one day? Did He just, you know, wake up and say, "Oh, you know, I run the entire universe"? Because if that is possible, then it's also possible that the universe just spawned one day randomly through the Big Bang, or this universe just spawned randomly one day.
Um, and that's my main problem with the simulation argument, which is if somebody simulated us, and say it's a bunch of aliens that are sitting and, you know, making all of this happen on a computer, then where did they come from? And if you answer that question and you say, "Hey, they were simulated too," then you enter this recursive loop where you have to keep going upwards, and then eventually you will stop at that first simulation and then say, "Where did the first simulators come from, the people who are unsimulated?" And which is the same problem with God, because if you say that, you know, God created the universe and you say, "Okay, some other god created this god," then you have to keep climbing upwards.
And, you know, my answer to this question now, or my answer to this situation now, is that we live in a computer.
When I say, you know, there is nothing, people don't understand the meaning of the word nothingness.
Nothingness doesn't mean, you know, it's some black, spacious place without, you know, without any humans or, or anything or any stars.
It's an unfathomable concept, right? Until you actually really put your mind to thinking about it.
If, um, there's a piece of paper and I cut a hole in the middle, it doesn't mean that there's nothing there.
But for you to actually make nothing there, then you need to take the pieces of paper on the left and the right and stitch it together, and then the gap becomes nothing, right? But in the real world, it means the gap is gone, right? So what I believe is that there was, there is never a concept such as nothing, right? There's no such thing as nothing.
Um, which also means that what has existed has always existed, right? So I believe the nature of reality as we s- speak about it today is that of a computer.
The goal of science is to prove that the entire universe works according to logic, cause and effect.
It's a computer, right? And the more you study about computers, the more I study about the world, the more I study about physics, the more I study about astrophysics, I realize the world or the universe is a computer that's generating many different types of simulations, and there was never anything apart from it.
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