Simulation hypothesis
Subject in Philosophy
Simulation hypothesis has come up in 6 episodes across 4 podcasts in TMT, including The Joe Rogan Experience, The Shawn Ryan Show, Digital Social Hour. 5 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Rizwan VirkEntrepreneur and video game designer cited by Cohen as linking health problems to straying from his life path
Virk says he leans toward the spiritual RPG version of simulation theory, partly because of pre-birth memories reported in near-death experiences.
“I tend to lean more towards the spiritual version, the RPG version, that we're inside a video game”
Digital Social Hour: New Simulation Theory Evidence Has Experts Shocked... | DSH #2022 (Jun 17, 2026) · Listen from 15:53
Virk recounts that a 2016 VR ping pong game was so realistic it briefly fooled his body, prompting his interest in simulation theory.
“it was so realistic that my body forgot for a second or 30 seconds that I wasn't really playing a real game of table tennis”
Digital Social Hour: New Simulation Theory Evidence Has Experts Shocked... | DSH #2022 (Jun 17, 2026) · Listen from 4:31
Virk estimates the probability that we live in a simulation at about 70 percent, up from his 2019 estimate of at least 50 percent.
“And in 2019, I said it's at least 50%. Now I say it's closer to 70%. That's not a precise number, though”
Digital Social Hour: New Simulation Theory Evidence Has Experts Shocked... | DSH #2022 (Jun 17, 2026) · Listen from 11:11
Danny GolerIndependent researcher and founder of the nonprofit Code of Reality, known for the DMT laser experiment
Goler says his certainty that we live in a simulation comes not from the laser code but from direct revelation.
“It had nothing to do with the code. The reason I'm so sure is because it was shown to me directly”
The Shawn Ryan Show: #320 Danny Goler - Apple Vision Pro May Have Captured Something We CAN'T Explain (Jul 9, 2026) · Listen from 1:11:48
Goler predicts disclosure of non-human realities will come privately to individuals rather than through an official announcement.
“the disclosure is not going to happen by somebody coming to a podium and reading a speech and telling you what somebody else told them to say”
The Shawn Ryan Show: #320 Danny Goler - Apple Vision Pro May Have Captured Something We CAN'T Explain (Jul 9, 2026) · Listen from 38:44
Joe RoganAmerican comedian and host of The Joe Rogan Experience
Rogan argues reality is better described as a real biological program than a simulation, one that leads to the creation of artificial life.
“So I don't think the simulation term is the best term. I think it's a program”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2507 - Harland Williams (May 29, 2026) · Listen from 1:29:19
Rogan speculates that civilization may have repeatedly created artificial life and destructive weaponry before collapsing and resetting.
“What if there's been multiple cycles of us creating artificial life, creating insane weaponry, blasting ourselves to smithereens, and then resetting?”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2481 - Duncan Trussell (Apr 9, 2026) · Listen from 2:03:49
Duncan TrussellAmerican stand-up comedian, voice actor and host of The Duncan Trussell Family Hour
Trussell reads the Book of Genesis as an account of a creator building an artificial intelligence in a sandbox and testing it.
“the most eerie part of the book of Genesis is that it's literally... a creator force making a meat AI. That's Adam and Eve. Putting them in a sandbox, that's the Garden of Eden”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2481 - Duncan Trussell (Apr 9, 2026) · Listen from 2:05:30
PalehorseArtist and host of the Seekers of the Eternal podcast, also referred to as Chris
Palehorse states his belief, grounded in Eastern teachings, that people are formless eternal beings rather than bodies.
“I believe that we're all formless, infinite, eternal beings just having these experiences, having these human experiences in these bodies”
Seekers of the Eternal: 59 ~ Solocast w/ Palehorse - The Creative Muse (Jan 29, 2025) · Listen from 1:03:49
Coverage over time
Podcasts
- The Joe Rogan Experience · 3 episodes
- The Shawn Ryan Show · 1 episode
- Digital Social Hour · 1 episode
- Seekers of the Eternal · 1 episode
Episodes
#320 Danny Goler - Apple Vision Pro May Have Captured Something We CAN'T ExplainThe Shawn Ryan Show · Jul 9, 2026 · 2 h 42 min
Shawn Ryan interviews researcher Danny Goler about his DMT laser 'code' experiment, simulation theory, entities encountered on DMT, consciousness, and Buddhist no-self practice.
New Simulation Theory Evidence Has Experts Shocked... | DSH #2022Digital Social Hour · Jun 17, 2026 · 53 min
Sean Kelly talks with author Rizwan Virk at Conscious Life Expo about simulation theory, AI-generated worlds, quantum physics, the Mandela Effect, jinn, UFOs and karma.
#2507 - Harland WilliamsThe Joe Rogan Experience · May 29, 2026 · 3 h 20 min
Joe Rogan and comedian Harland Williams riff through prop gags and debate UFOs, AI, simulation theory, wolves, the death of the sitcom and comedy roasts.
#2494 - Chamath PalihapitiyaThe Joe Rogan Experience · May 5, 2026 · 2 h 52 min
Joe Rogan and venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya discuss attention as a unifying force in technology, AI's economic and existential risks, taxation, government waste, and personal meaning.
#2481 - Duncan TrussellThe Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 9, 2026 · 3 h 13 min
Joe Rogan and Duncan Trussell discuss unregulated AI, war with Iran, government propaganda, UFO disclosure and nonprofit fraud.
59 ~ Solocast w/ Palehorse - The Creative MuseSeekers of the Eternal · Jan 29, 2025 · 1 h 16 min
In a live solo episode, Palehorse discusses following the inner muse, superconscious inspiration, his planned creativity course, and the Thoth-inspired start of his oracle deck.