Ep. 406 Evolution vs Simulation Theory
Adam Haman returns to help Bob navigate through yet another Twitter battle, this time on Darwin’s theory of evolution vs. simulation theory (i.e. the notion that we are all in a giant simulation). Lots of interesting fodder to make you think.
Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:
- The YouTube version of this conversation.
- Bob’s battles after his jab at the Carl Sagan account’s tweet.
- BMS ep 303 featuring Jonathan Bartlett, explaining that standard evolutionary theory uses non-random mutations all the time.
- BMS ep 358 in which Adam and Bob discussed Nick Bostrum and simulation theory.
- The HamanNature substack.
- Help support the Bob Murphy Show.
About the author, Robert
Christian and economist, Chief Economist at infineo, and Senior Fellow with the Mises Institute.
People not understanding the difference between “fact” and “theory” is infuriating, and they do it on all sides of every issue.
The biggest reason the simulation hypothesis seems implausible to me is that the world is just way too consistent. When you do things in a video game that the devs didn’t account for, you start seeing crazy glitches, and often the game just plain crashes. I don’t think we have managed to crash reality yet. We don’t even get any glitches. Though maybe some would argue manipulation of things at the quantum level to produce new phenomena is exactly that.
Interesting perspective.