Cosmic Queries – Living in a Simulation with Nick Bostrom

December 19, 2025 53m

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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?

Originally Aired December 21, 2021.

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Cosmic Queries – Living in a Simulation with Nick Bostrom

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