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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The Black Panthers Context From Mary Williams, Jane Fonda's Daughter

The Black Panthers Context From Mary Williams, Jane Fonda's Daughter

If you watched Sunday evening's 2021 Oscars and learned of British actor, Daniel Kaluya's, stunning and accolade-winning performance and have not gone on to watch 'Judas And The Black Messiah', maybe ...

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As President Biden Prepares To Declare The Armenian Massacre A "Genocide"

As President Biden Prepares To Declare The Armenian Massacre A "Genocide"

President Joe Biden is to declare the massacre of an estimated million or more Armenians under the Ottoman Empire a "genocide", risking a potential fracture with Turkey but fulfilling a campaign pledg...

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Vermont's Dinah Yessne, Successful But Unknown, Always Politically Defined

Vermont's Dinah Yessne, Successful But Unknown, Always Politically Defined

Claudia Cragg @claudiacragg speaks here for @KGNU with Dinah Yessne. A native of St. Paul, Minnesota, Yessne's parents were active in the Progressive movement of the 1940s and 50s, earning them the en...

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Get the 'Wealth Hoarders' To Pay For the Biden Infrastructure Bill

Get the 'Wealth Hoarders' To Pay For the Biden Infrastructure Bill

Claudia Cragg @claudiacragg speaks here for @KGNU (Denver, Boulder, Fort Collins, www.kgnu.org) for #ItsTheEconomy with Chuck Collins, senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies. There, he dir...

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Denver's Erik J Clarke on President Biden's 'American Jobs Plan'

Denver's Erik J Clarke on President Biden's 'American Jobs Plan'

Claudia Cragg @claudiacragg speaks here with @ErikJClarke about the implications for Denver, Colorado and the nation from President Biden's new infrastructure plan to fulfill his campaign promise to "...

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No More Growth At Any Price, How To Build Back Better w Rob Dietz

No More Growth At Any Price, How To Build Back Better w Rob Dietz

If COVID19 has shown us anything at all, it must be that growth at any price is not an option going forward. 'Build Back Better' is an opportunity to ensure that growth is of the most productive and v...

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The COVID Relief Bill Will Help Greatly But Will Food Banks Still Be Busy?

The COVID Relief Bill Will Help Greatly But Will Food Banks Still Be Busy?

Claudia Cragg @claudiacragg speaks here for #ItsTheEconomy @KGNU with Sheen Kadi of #Metro Caring Denver. As Colorado's leading frontline anti-hunger organization, Metro Caring works with the communit...

5 Maalis 202133min

Racist Attacks on Asian Americans in Denver and Beyond

Racist Attacks on Asian Americans in Denver and Beyond

Claudia Cragg @claudiacragg speaks here for @KGNU #ItsTheEconomy with Fran Campbell, President of the Asian Chamber of Commerce in Colorado The last 6 months have been an unprecedented challenge to th...

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