Riz talks with NYU philosophy professor David Chalmers about all things simulation and virtual and his new book, Reality+.

Riz speaks with Cathy Hackl,the Godmother of the Metaverse, about the boundaries of the metaverse and her career.

Riz talks with Avery Akineni, President of VaynerNFT aboutthe past, present and future of NFTs.

Riz talks with the writer/producer ofThe Mandela Effect, a hit 2019 indie sci fi film about simulation theory and the mysterious Mandela Effect.

Riz speaks with Lauren Kunze and kuki.ai about virtual beings in the emerging metaverse.

Riz talks with Ready Player Me CEO Timmu Toke about the promise and challenges of cross-game avatars that can be used across the metaverse.

Kicking off season 2, Riz talks with Jon Radoff, CEO of Beamable, about entering the metavere.

  Join Riz as he talks with Donald Hoffman, professor emeritus at University of California-Irvine,and the  author of The Case Against Reality:Why Evolution Hid the Truth From Our Eyes.  They discuss his idea of conscious agents, why spacetime is dead, why reality is like being in a virtual headset, and why all three of the fundamental theories our scientists subscribe to - general relativity, quantum mechanics and evolution - all point to the idea that what we think of as "reality" is not really reality.  Moreover, Hoffman talks about the limits of scientific theories and why most of our theories are probably wrong.  This is a lively discussion you'll not want to miss!  

A conversation wit the director of A Glitch in the Matrix

In this episode, Riz talks with Joe Artuso, Director  of Marketing at OpenBCI, about the state of the industry when it comes to interfacing computers with your brain.  Riz asks Joe about OpenBCI's initiatives to get an open source low cost headset out to the market, and talks about how far away we are from sci fi BCIs, exploring scenarios ranging from the Matrix to Total Recall to Ready Player Two.     Learn more about OpenBCI at https://openbci.com/   For all episodes, see simulateduniverse.podbean.com Follow Riz Virk @rizstanford, learn about his books at www.zenentrepreneur.com      

Riz talks with the author of My Big TOE about the nature of reality and his experiments to prove we are in a simulation.

Riz talks to Adam Curry, former researcher at Princeton's PEAR lab and founder of Entangled, about the intersection of quantum mechanics, consciousness, and how it might be creating a consensus reality.  We talk about his experience in building QRNGs (quantum random number generators), possible explanations for synchronicity, the nature of the past and the future, and how all of this relates to the Mandela Effect.  Adam describes a number of experiments with confounding results that might reveal something deep about the nature of the universe that science is only beginning to suspect.  

Join Riz for a lively discussion with physicist Sky Nelson-Isaacs about his book, Living in Flow. We talk about synchronicity, quantum physics and the branching of reality. We get into quantum weirdness, retroactive event determination, the delayed choice experiment, and the holographic multiverse and holograms in time, concepts that he's developing which could explain how we navigate different realities in what he calls a "responsive universe". You might think you understand the past and the future, but this conversation will make you think again.  Visit Sky's website at www.skynelson.com

Riz explores the work of science fiction legend Philip K. Dick and the Simulation Hypothesis, by interviewing his surviving wife, Tessa B. Dick.  In our conversation, we discuss everything from the The Matrix (what would Phil have thought?), multiple timelines, dreams, The Adjustment Bureau, Blade Runner and his belief that we are living inside a computer generated reality.