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Episode Description
Physicist Professor Melvin Vopson joins Peter McCormack to discuss information physics, simulation theory, AI, digital life, consciousness, God, free will, and death.
Melvin argues that the universe may be governed by information and computation, and that recent advances in brain emulation could force us to confront one of the strangest questions imaginable: if a brain is loaded into a simulation, what exactly wakes up?
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 — If You Hack the Simulation, You Control the Universe!
00:01:25 — Why Does Life Feel Artificial?
00:03:26 — Are We Living in a Simulation?
00:05:45 — What Is Information Physics?
00:10:09 — Information as the Fifth State of Matter
00:11:18 — John Wheeler and “It from Bit”
00:13:33 — Is DNA Just Information?
00:16:08 — Who Created the Creator?
00:19:47 — How Would Mario Prove He’s Inside the Game?
00:25:46 — Does the Universe Optimise Itself?
00:29:35 — Is Symmetry a Form of Compression?
00:30:40 — GTA, Rendering, and Computational Reality
00:32:37 — Error-Correcting Code in Physics
00:37:30 — Could Information Explain Dark Matter?
00:40:24 — If You Hack Reality, You Control the Universe
00:45:36 — “In the Beginning Was the Word”
00:46:29 — “In the Beginning Was the Code”
00:57:20 — What Exactly Wakes Up in There?
01:00:32 — But Is It Me?
01:20:56 — Would Proof of Simulation Change Anything?
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