Leonard Susskind: Are We a Computer Simulation with a Purpose?

00:00:07.680 | What kind of questions can science not currently answer and may never be able to answer?

00:00:13.680 | Yeah, is there intelligence out there that's underlies the whole thing?

00:00:21.040 | You can call them with the G word if you want. I can say,

00:00:26.000 | are we a computer simulation with a purpose? Is there an agent, an intelligent agent,

00:00:34.320 | that underlies or is responsible for the whole thing? Does that intelligent agent satisfy the

00:00:41.440 | laws of physics? Does it satisfy the laws of quantum mechanics? Is it made of atoms and molecules?

00:00:46.160 | Yeah, there's a lot of questions. And I don't see... it seems to me a real question.

00:00:53.840 | It's an answerable question. Well, I don't know if it's answerable. The questions have to be

00:00:57.600 | answerable to be real. Some philosophers would say that a question is not a question unless it's

00:01:05.520 | answerable. This question doesn't seem to me answerable by any known method, but it seems to me

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