Oh, What a Relief: None of this May Be REAL?

Oh, What a Relief: None of this May Be REAL?

What if the real world isn't 'REAL' but just some kind of computer program? Claudia Cragg (@claudiacragg) speaks here with Riz Virk @Rizstanford As Virk (Treasure Hunt, 2017) puts it, "The fundamental question raised by the Simulation Hypothesis is: Are we all actually characters living inside some kind of giant, massively multi-player online video game, a simulated reality that is so well rendered that we cannot distinguish it from 'physical reality'?" These ideas may well have first been most discussed because of the Matrix films, but many people have been fascinated with the potential for far longer than video games have been around. Plato's Allegory of the Cave suggests a similar concept, as do the teachings of Buddhism, Islam and Hinduism. Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, was interested in the notion of mental projection while Philip K. Dick—who frequently imagined such situations in his fiction—firmly believed that the world was a simulation. Virk says the Simulation Hypothesis is not as far-fetched as it may seem. He explains computer science, humanity's understanding of physics, and mystical traditions going back thousands of years all point to the idea that the world may not be as "real" as people think it is. "The goal of what we call science," he says, " is to understand the nature of reality. If we are in fact inside a video game, then science becomes a matter of 'discovering' the rules of this video game." Virk demonstrates that what we call 'reality' is a harder concept to engage with than people admit.

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Robert Kuttner, co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect

Robert Kuttner, co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect

Claudia Cragg (@ClaudiaCragg) speaks here with Robert Kuttner (@rkuttnerwrites) whose latest book is The Stakes: 2020 and the Survival of American Democracy. Some of those interviewed in this long-run...

10 Loka 201913min

Elderhood, Louise Aronson, Transforming How We Think and Feel About Ageing

Elderhood, Louise Aronson, Transforming How We Think and Feel About Ageing

Claudia Cragg (@KGNUClaudia) speaks here with geriatrician and author, Dr. Louise Aronson (@LouiseAronson) on her new book, Elderhood, an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged sta...

7 Loka 201934min

Ukraine, Russia, always in the news: what about the people?

Ukraine, Russia, always in the news: what about the people?

The news cycle rarely passes these days without negative news of Russia and, sadly for the people of that region, Ukraine. What about the people? Claudia Cragg (@KGNUClaudia) speaks here with Caroline...

2 Loka 201942min

From a Filipino shanty to Galveston, De Parle's Good Provider is One Who Leaves

From a Filipino shanty to Galveston, De Parle's Good Provider is One Who Leaves

For this show, Claudia Cragg (@ClaudiaCragg) speaks here with Jason DeParle (@JasonDeParle) a veteran reporter for The New York Times, about his new book, A Good Provider is One Who Leaves (Viking, 1s...

12 Syys 201929min

Shanthi Sekaran and her 'Lucky Boy' (REPRISE)

Shanthi Sekaran and her 'Lucky Boy' (REPRISE)

In Shanthi Sekaran's, 'Lucky Boy, Solimar Castro Valdez is eighteen and drunk on optimism when she embarks on a perilous journey across the US/Mexican border. Weeks later she arrives on her cousin's d...

20 Elo 201914min

The #DemocracyCollaborative, a"Democratic Economy' IS possible, with Ted Howard

The #DemocracyCollaborative, a"Democratic Economy' IS possible, with Ted Howard

The US economy is designed by the 1 percent, for the 1 percent, says Ted Howard in conversation here with Claudia Cragg (@ClaudiaCragg). His new book, The Making of a Democratic Economy, written with ...

7 Elo 201937min

How To Become a New Technology Entrepreneur with Ran Poliakine

How To Become a New Technology Entrepreneur with Ran Poliakine

Claudia Cragg (@KGNUClaudia) speaks here with Ran Poliakine, a serial entrepreneur, inventor and industrial designer. In 2007, Poliakine founded Powermat Technologies, a company that utilized inductiv...

17 Heinä 201932min

The BBC's Anita Anand discusses her 'Patient Assassin'

The BBC's Anita Anand discusses her 'Patient Assassin'

On April 13, 1919, a column of British troops marched into the Jallianwala Bagh, a public garden in Amritsar, a city in Punjab, where more than 15,000 Indians had gathered for a peaceful protest again...

4 Heinä 201927min

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