OddEdges's video: Eliott Edge - Breaking into the Simulated Universe 3 Essays on Virtual Reality

Eliott Edge on escaping VR, from his book ‘3 Essays on Virtual Reality: Overlords, Civilization, and Escape.’ Get the book -- http://amzn.to/2knSVJX  Support Eliott https://www.patreon.com/oddedges https://stormiemotion.wixsite.com/eliottedgeauthor References 1. Edge, Eliott. "Why it Matters that You Realize You’re in a Computer Simulation." Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, 14 Nov. 2015, https://ieet.org/index.php/IEET2/more/Edge20151114. Accessed 02 July 2017. 2. Bostrom, Nick. "Are We Living in a Computer Simulation?" The Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 53, no. 211, 2003, pp. 243-255, www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html. 3. D'Onfro, Jillian. "Here's the Question Elon Musk Talked About So Much that He Now Refuses to Discuss it in Hot Tubs." Business Insider, 02 June 2016, uk.businessinsider.com/the-question-elon-musk-refuses-to-talk-about-in-hot-tubs-2016-6. 4. Furedi, Jacob. "Bank of America Analysts Think There's a 50 per cent Chance We Live in The Matrix." The Independent, 14 Sept. 2016, www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/bank-of-america-the-matrix-50-per-cent-virtual-reality-elon-musk-nick-bostrom-a7287471.html. 5. Friend, Tad. "Sam Altman's Manifest Destiny." The New Yorker, 19 June 2017, www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/10/sam-altmans-manifest-destiny. Accessed 02 July 2017. 6. Folger, Tim. "Einstein's Grand Quest for a Unified Theory." Discover Magazine, 30 Sept. 2004, discovermagazine.com/2004/sep/einsteins-grand-quest. Accessed 02 July 2017. 7. “‘That's no moon’ - Maxwell Edge & Tom Campbell - Life is a Videogame: The Movie.” YouTube, uploaded by OddEdges, 8 Jan. 2014, https://youtu.be/FZnuk0xKPn8. 8. Australian National University. "Experiment confirms quantum theory weirdness." ScienceDaily, 27 May 2015, www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/05/150527103110.htm. "It proves that measurement is everything. At the quantum level, reality does not exist if you are not looking at it," said Associate Professor Andrew Truscott from the ANU Research School of Physics and Engineering.G. Manning, et al. “Wheeler's Delayed-choice Gedanken Experiment with a Single Atom.” Nature Physics, vol. 11, 2015, pp. 539-542, DOI: 10.1038/nphys3343. 9. Faye, Jan. "Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, 3 May 2002, substantially revised 24 July 2014, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-copenhagen/. 10. Kuhn, Robert Lawrence. "Is Our Universe a Fake?" Space.com, 31 July 2015, https://www.space.com/30124-is-our-universe-a-fake.html. 11. Campbell, Tom, et al. "On Testing the Simulation Hypothesis." International Journal of Quantum Foundations, vol. 3, no. 3, July 2017, pp. 78-99, www.ijqf.org/archives/4105. 12. Folger, Tim. "Does the Universe Exist if We're Not Looking?" Discover Magazine, 1 June 2002, discovermagazine.com/2002/jun/featuniverse. 13. Whitworth, Brian. “Simulating Space and Time.” Prespacetime Journal, March 2010, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 218-243. 14. The Matrix. Directed by the Wachowskis. Warner Bros., 1999. Here… take a cookie. 15. G. Manning, et al. “Wheeler's Delayed-choice Gedanken Experiment.” 16. Campbell, Tom. My Big TOE: A Trilogy Unifying Philosophy, Physics and Metaphysics. Lightning Strike Books, 2003. 17. Fredkin, Edward. "Finite Nature." Progress in Atomic Physics, 1992, 52.7.130.124/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/finite_nature.pdf. 18. Fredkin, Edward. “A New Cosmogony,” Proceedings of the Workshop on Physics and Computation, 1993, pp. 116–121. 19. Campbell, Tom. My Big TOE. 20. Beerling, David J. The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth’s History. Oxford University Press, 2017. The great evolutionary biologist J.B.S. Haldane (1892–1964), on being asked by a cleric what biology could say about the Creator, entreatingly replied, “I'm really not sure, expect that the Creator, if he exists, must have an inordinate fondness of beetles.” Haldane was referring to the fact that approximately 400,000 species of beetles make up roughly 25% of all known species. 21. Wheeler, J. A. “Information, Physics, Quantum: The Search for Links.” Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium: Foundations of Quantum Mechanics in the Light of New Technology. Physical Society of Japan, 1990, pp. 354-368. 22. Sjöstedt-H, Peter. "The Hidden Psychedelic History of Philosophy: Plato, Nietzsche, and 11 Other Philosophers Who Used Mind-Altering Drugs." High Existence, 27 Sept. 2016, highexistence.com/hidden-psychedelic-influence-philosophy-plato-nietzsche-psychonauts-thoughts/ 23. “Why LSD is Important.” YouTube, uploaded by London Real, 14 Apr. 2016, https://youtu.be/Sw-OmHFXHs0. “I am sure Terence [McKenna] would be very pleased that [LSD Revealed Event at the Royal Society] were happening. I think he’d be disappointed about why did it take so long.” – Rupert Sheldrake 24. Fredkin, Edward. “A New Cosmogony.”