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Cosmic Queries – Living in a Simulation with Nick Bostrom

Cosmic Queries – Living in a Simulation with Nick Bostrom

Update: 2021-12-21

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Are we in a simulation? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice take a deep dive into simulation theory, consciousness, and free will with Oxford theorist Nick Bostrom. Is this The Matrix?

NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://www.startalkradio.net/show/cosmic-queries-living-in-a-simulation-with-nick-bostrom/

Thanks to our Patrons Joshua Mooneyham, Mike Reno, Eric Ennis, Bill Savage, Kevin Meyer, Lise Rafaelsen, and Andre Lewis for supporting us this week.

Photo Credit: Gareth Halfacree, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Cosmic Queries – Living in a Simulation with Nick Bostrom

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