Neil deGrasse Tyson Hosts An Outstanding Debate On The Topic Of The Simulation Theory

Neil deGrasse Tyson hosted and moderated a panel of experts for a fun debate on the topic of the simulation theory. The 17th Annual Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate took place at The American Museum of Natural History on April 5, 2016, and really is the follow-up to a previous debate where James Gates (theoretical physicist, University of Maryland and science adviser to the Obama Administration) dropped the mic and stole the show with his finding of Block Linear Self Dual Error Correcting Code within string theory super symmetry physics equations. What is particularly bizarre about this finding is that the correcting code is used specifically for search engine software. In other words, the code we humans created in the constantly evolving internet age already exists in the fabric of the universe! How did James Gates find the code? Well, pretty much accidentally. You see the equations when looked at in their entirety create pictures which to the human eye resembles art with fractal patterns. Here is an example. We have to give James Gates a lot of credit for this important discovery.

Nick Bostrom, the author of the horrifying nonfiction book Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, famously concocted a thought experiment which is pretty much the foundation of the simulation theory. Simplified, the solution to the experiment is that if humans as a species are capable of creating a simulation one day that seems as real as our reality, then we are presently living in a simulation. Keep in mind, it doesn't matter if it takes us 500 years or 5 years to create such a simulation, because once we achieve that level of technology we would create trillions of simulations - undoubtedly within a powerful quantum computer. This would explain the Fermi Paradox. That is, all civilizations capable of simulation technology eventually create their own simulations which provides immortality. To understand how immortality is possible with the simulation existence, just think of the average lifespan of 70 years feeling like 70 years, but outside the simulation maybe only a few seconds passed. Without further adieu, here is the video of the debate.