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Index
Overview
The Simulation Hypothesis
Do We All Live Inside a Video Game?
Science Fiction—How the Simulation Hypothesis Went Mainstream
Quantum Physics and the Idea of a “Subjective Reality”
Eastern Mysticism and the Western Afterlife
Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and Simulated Consciousness
Simulations, Computation, and Chaos
The Great Simulation—Our Shared Video Game
The Simulation Hypothesis Uses Information to Explain the Unexplainable
How to Build the Matrix: The Computer Science
Stages 0 to 3: From Pong to MMORPGs
The Road to the Simulation Point
The Modern Stages of Video Game Technology
Stage 0: Text Adventures and the “Game World” (1970s to mid-1980s)
Stage 1: Early Graphical Arcade and Console Games (1970s-1980s)
Stage 2: Graphical Adventure / RPG Games (1980s-1990s)
Stage 3: 3D Rendered MMORPGs and Virtual Worlds (1990s-Today)
Where We Have Arrived on the Road
Stages 4 to 8: From Virtual Reality to Mind Interfaces
Stage 4: Immersion Using Virtual Reality
Stage 5: Photorealistic Augmented and Mixed Reality (AR, MR)
Stage 6: Real-World Rendering: Light-Field Display and 3D Printing
Stage 7: Mind Interfaces
Stage 8: Implanted Memories
Stages 9 to 10: Artificial Intelligence and Downloadable Consciousness
Stage 9: Artificial Intelligence and NPCs
The History and Rise of AI
Reaching Stage 9
From HAL to Data—Portrayals of Artificial Consciousness
The Ethics of AI and Its Uses
Stage 10: Downloadable Consciousness and Digital Immortality
Altered Carbon and Downloading Consciousness
The Upshot: Consciousness as Information
Stage 11: The Simulation Point, Ancestor Simulations and Beyond
Stage 11: Reaching the Simulation Point
What are Ancestor Simulations?
Bostrom’s Simulation Argument
The Statistical Basis for Bostrom’s Argument
Are We Simulated Characters in an Ancestor Simulation or Conscious Players in a Video Game?
What is Consciousness?
Digital Consciousness vs. Spiritual Consciousness
Does Simulation Explain Our World?
How Simulation Explains Our World: The Physics
Conditional Rendering and the Collapse of the Probability Wave
Video Games and Quantum Indeterminacy
The Old Physics
The New Physics and the Wave/Particle Duality
The Crux of the Problem: The Particle-Wave Duality
Moving from Quantum Indeterminacy to Video Games
Conditional Rendering in Video Games
The Simulation Hypothesis and Quantum Indeterminacy
Philosophical Questions Raised by QI
Parallel Universes, Future Selves, and Video Games
The Delayed-Choice Experiment
Measurement in the Future vs. the Past
Multiple Possible Futures?
Parallel Worlds and the Multiverse
Parallel Lives and Future Selves: The Great Game
Fringe and a Parallel World
Game Theory, Simulations, and the Directed Graph
Campbell’s Fundamental Process and Profitability Function
Parallel Worlds Must Be Computed
Parallel Universes and the Simulation Hypothesis
Pixels, Quanta, and the Structure of Space-Time
Particles and Pixels in the Screen
3D Pixels and Particles
Zeno’s Paradox and a Discrete World
The Quanta in Quantum Physics
Quanta of Space
The Speed of Light and Its Effect on Time
Clock-Speed and Quantized Time in Computer Simulations
Quantized Space and Time Are Interrelated
Calculating Quantized Time and Space
Traversing Space Time Instantly in a Simulation
Pixels, Quanta, Space-Time, Wormholes, and the Simulation Hypothesis
How Simulation Explains the Unexplainable: The Mystics
Spirits in an Illusory, Video Game–Like Dream World
The World is an Illusion or a Dream
The Dreaming God and the Collective Dream
The Many Purposes of Dreaming
Buddhist Dream Yoga
Dreams as Mini-Simulations
Downloadable Consciousness and the Secret Seventh Yoga
Multiple Lives & Karma as Quests in Video Games
Multiple Lives and the Doctrines of Reincarnation
The Purpose of Karma and Reincarnation
How Karma is Stored and Used to Create Situations in Life
A Theoretical Model for Reincarnation
Some Features of Modern Video Games
The Simulation Hypothesis: A Video Game Model Based on Karma?
Quests and the Simulation Hypothesis
A Quest Engine for Karma
Is Buddha’s Endless Wheel an Algorithm?
Some Unexplained Areas: God, Angels, NDEs, and UFOs
God and the Creation of the Physical World
God and the Afterlife
Angels
AI: Gods and Angels and the Simulation Hypothesis
Near-Death Experiences
UFOs
The Fermi Paradox
Jung and Synchronicity
OBEs, Remote Viewing, Telepathy and Other “Unexplained” Phenomena
Putting It All Together
Skeptics and Believers: Evidence of Computation
The Categories of Arguments/Experiments
A Quick Note about Metaphysical Experiments and Consciousness
The Skeptics: The Resource Argument
Evidence of Conditional Rendering
Experiments for Evidence of Pixels
Evidence of Computation: Error-Correcting Codes
Quantum Computers, Error Codes, and Quantum Entanglement
Quantum Entanglement and Simulation
Fractals and Evidence of Computation in Nature
Simple Programs and A New Kind of Science
Conclusion—The Search for Evidence of Computation
The Great Simulation and Its Implications
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave and the Simulation Hypothesis
What Is the Great Simulation and Who Runs It?
What Are the Main Elements of the Great Simulation?
Conscious Beings or Unconscious Simulations—PCs vs. NPCs
The Big Picture: Computation Underlies the Other Sciences
Parting Thoughts: Bridging the Great Divide
Acknowledgements
Index
About the Author
Notes
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