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Cosmic Queries – Living in a Simulation with Nick Bostrom
Season 12 · Episode 57

Cosmic Queries – Living in a Simulation with Nick Bostrom

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?

StarTalk Radio · Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chuck Nice, Nick Bostrom

December 21, 202153m 48s

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Show Notes

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? 

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