"In the Matrix": A Talk With Martin Rees
All these multiverse ideas lead to a remarkable synthesis between cosmology and physics…But they also lead to the extraordinary consequence that we may not be the deepest reality, we may be a simulation. The possibility that we are creations of some supreme, or super-being, blurs the boundary between physics and idealist philosophy, between the natural and the supernatural, and between the relation of mind and multiverse and the possibility that we’re in the matrix rather than the physics itself.
(SIR MARTIN REES is Royal Society Professor at Cambridge University, Fellow of King’s College, the UK’s Astronomer Royal, and a Fellow of the Royal Society.)