The Simulation Hypothesis Quotes

“Many of the world’s religious traditions tell us that the world around us is an illusion created for our benefit.”
― Rizwan Virk, The Simulation Hypothesis

“Therefore, what we think of as a physical body can really be expressed as information that is interpreted by a biological printing process to create cells that are assembled into larger abstractions called living organisms!”
― Rizwan Virk, The Simulation Hypothesis

“Bostrom’s conclusion is that if any society ever makes it to the simulation point, then it is more likely that we are already inside a simulation!”
― Rizwan Virk, The Simulation Hypothesis

“When I was at MIT, one of the most important lessons I learned about science was that it wasn’t meant to describe reality exactly but rather to come up with a set of workable models that could approximate reality under certain conditions. The models needed to be reliable and fit the existing data.”
― Rizwan Virk, The Simulation Hypothesis

“It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those points where two different lines of thought meet. These lines may have their root in quite different parts of human culture, in different times or different cultural environments or different religious traditions; hence, if they actually meet … then one may hope that new and interesting developments will follow.66 —Werner Heisenberg, Nobel Prize Winner in Physics”
― Rizwan Virk, The Simulation Hypothesis

“The wave of our consciousness continuum contains all of our experiences in this life and in our past lives in an infinitely complex web…”52”
― Rizwan Virk, The Simulation Hypothesis

“The best we can do is to observe shadows of the real world because we cannot perceive it directly”
― Rizwan Virk, The Simulation Hypothesis

“The metaphor of multiple lives entered the video game world well after the Eastern doctrines of reincarnation and its concept of multiple lives. It’s not clear whether the original moniker of “multiple lives” in video games had any connection with multiple lives in Eastern spiritual traditions.”
― Rizwan Virk, The Simulation Hypothesis