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Dec 2021
53m 48s

Cosmic Queries – Living in a Simulation ...

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
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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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