#175 - Dr Melvin Vopson - If You Hack The Code Of Reality, You Become God

Professor Melvin Vopson joins Peter McCormack to discuss one of the biggest questions in science and philosophy: is reality simulated? Melvin argues that information may not simply describe the universe - it may be a physical part of it. From Shannon’s information theory and John Wheeler’s “it from bit,” to the possibility that the universe optimises itself like a computational system, this conversation explores whether reality may be closer to code than matter. They discuss simulation theory, AI, digital life, dark matter, consciousness, free will, religion, God, death, and the terrifying question raised by recent brain-emulation research: if a brain is mapped and loaded into a simulation, what exactly wakes up in there?

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