Paramahansa Yogananda’s Autobiography of a Yogi was one of the most impactful spiritual books of the 20th century and has travelled around the world, inspiring millions to walk the spiritual path. But what are 21st-century spiritual aspirants, steeped in technology and science, to think of these classic tales of gurus, swamis, and miracles in the […]
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The fundamental question raised by the simulation hypothesis is this: Are we all actually characters living inside some kind of giant, massively multiplayer online video game, a simulated reality that is so well rendered that we cannot distinguish it from “physical reality”? Although Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom coined the term the Simulation Argument in a […]
Recently the discussion of Artificial Intelligence has entered into the mainstream with a plethora of new apps that change literally everything. Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, Chat GPT, Descript, the list is endless. Recently I shared a post on facebook that was largely positive in the way it portrayed Artificial Intelligence. I encountered a significant backlash and […]
I really really really enjoyed speaking with Rizwan Virk the amazing writer of The Simulation Hypothesis and The Simulated Multiverse Do multiple versions of ourselves exist in parallel universes living out their lives in different timelines?In this follow up to his bestseller, The Simulation Hypothesis, MIT Computer Scientist and Silicon Valley Game Pioneer Rizwan Virk […]
If you are like me and you are deeply fascinated by parallel realities and the multiverse, this may be one of the most important works you will encounter. In 1977, cult writer Philip K. Dick arrived at a science fiction convention in Metz, France to deliver a speech called, “If You Find this World Bad, […]