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In the most talked-about film from the final year of the 20th century, \u201cThe Matrix<\/a>,\u201d a computer hacker named Neo finds that the world he lives and works in isn\u2019t real. It\u2019s a virtual reality, created by artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

At the time, the idea seemed like science fiction. In the years since, however, that concept has become an increasingly credible theory: \u201cthe simulation hypothesis<\/a>.\u201d This theory posits that, like Neo, living things are characters inside a computer-generated simulation \u2013 or, as I describe in\u00a0my 2025 book<\/a>, a massively multiplayer video game. In this hypothesis, the physical world around us is actually\u00a0part of a virtual reality<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Simulation theory raises the kind of questions\u00a0once reserved for mystics and religious scholars<\/a>: Why are we here? Is there more to reality than we can see? Is there a creator? Are we more than our physical bodies?<\/p>\n

The science and technology may be modern, but in some ways, this hypothesis echoes ideas that faith traditions have explored for centuries.<\/p>\n

Living in a game?<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Simulation theory\u00a0became popular from the work<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0philosopher Nick Bostrom<\/a>, particularly a paper he published in 2003. The basic argument goes like this: If technology continues to improve, humans will be able to build virtual worlds indistinguishable from physical reality, and AI characters indistinguishable from biological beings. This suggests it\u2019s possible that a more advanced civilization has already reached that point \u2013 and that we are inside one of their simulations.<\/p>\n

Physicists<\/a>,\u00a0mathematicians<\/a>, technologists and computer scientists have\u00a0jumped into the game<\/a>. Opinions span a wide range of probabilities. Columbia University astronomer\u00a0David Kipping<\/a>\u00a0tried to\u00a0evaluate the odds<\/a>\u00a0we live in a simulation and came up with about 50\/50. Some thinkers doubt that the question is even answerable, while others think the theory is impossible \u2013 like a\u00a02025 paper<\/a>\u00a0arguing that no purely algorithmic system can explain the universe.<\/p>\n

The simulation hypothesis does not have to mean that people in the simulation are only soulless, computed AI inside someone else\u2019s creation. In \u201cThe Matrix,\u201d for example, even though Neo and other humans are characters inside the simulation, they also existed outside of the virtual world.<\/p>\n

Higher intelligence<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Simulation theory implies there is a greater intelligence than our own that exists beyond the physical world and may have created our universe \u2013 echoing foundational beliefs in many religious traditions. Transhumanist philosopher David Pearce, in fact, called Bostrom\u2019s argument \u201cthe first interesting\u00a0argument for the existence of a Creator<\/a>\u00a0in 2000 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, for example, all worship a single creator. The biblical\u00a0Book of Genesis<\/a>\u00a0describes God creating the world in six days, and there is\u00a0a similar narrative<\/a>\u00a0in the Quran<\/a>. According to these scriptures, God simply spoke, and it happened.<\/p>\n

Similarly, the simulation hypothesis argues that the world was created through commands \u2013 that is, through code. Today, users of AI issue verbal prompts to automatically create realistic pictures and videos that are nearly indistinguishable from real people and landscapes.<\/p>\n

In fact, users can even prompt AI programs to create characters that insist they aren\u2019t virtual, as some\u00a0have done in recent months<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 a phenomenon\u00a0called \u201cprompt theory<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

In August 2025,\u00a0Google released Genie 3<\/a>, which lets users create realistic-looking worlds that they can navigate through, like in a video game. In the past, these virtual worlds needed to be created by hand by teams of designers, limiting how big or complex they could be. Today, as AI advances, the idea that vast virtual worlds could be created to seem as large as our own is no longer considered such a fantasy.<\/p>\n

Body and soul<\/strong><\/h4>\n

A second way modern simulation theory echoes traditional religions is in the idea of the relationship between the soul and the body.<\/p>\n

One version of the hypothesis<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 what I call the RPG, or \u201crole-playing game,\u201d version \u2013 suggests the simulation\u00a0is like a multiplayer video game<\/a>. Each character inside the game represents the external player who controls them, meaning that, in some sense, the characters exhibit free will.<\/p>\n

The term for such a character, an \u201cavatar,\u201d is rooted in Sanskrit,\u00a0the language of many Hindu, Buddhist and Jain texts<\/a>. In Hinduism, an \u201cavatar\u201d refers to the incarnation of a divine being in the form of a human body.<\/p>\n

The idea of incarnation, or a soul entering a body, is one of the most mysterious aspects of many religious traditions. Describing the development of an unborn child, the Hadith \u2013 the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad \u2013 describe a moment when \u201cthe soul is breathed into him<\/a>.\u201d The Bible, too,\u00a0uses the metaphor of breath<\/a>\u00a0to describe incarnation: \u201cAnd the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another common metaphor is that the soul dons the body, just as the body puts on clothing. Rumi, whose poetry often explores mystic Sufi themes,\u00a0compared the body to a garment<\/a>\u00a0that could be\u00a0taken off or changed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A similar metaphor was used in\u00a0the Bhagavad Gita<\/a>, a Hindu scripture: \u201cJust as you throw out used clothes and put on other clothes, new ones, the Self discards its used bodies and puts on others that are new.\u201d<\/p>\n

If we think about the soul as the player of a virtual reality game, and the body as merely their character inside who has forgotten about the outside world, then the parallels between religion and simulation theory are clear. The game may end, or the character may die, but the player continues to exist outside the game. Some religions teach that each soul can be reincarnated, having many lives \u2013 as though the player goes in and plays the game again and again, playing many different characters.<\/p>\n

Immersed in a dream<\/strong><\/h4>\n

There is also an even more fundamental way simulation theory echoes some religious teachings: the idea that the physical world is not real, or is not all there is to reality.<\/p>\n

This is clear in the Hindu and Buddhist traditions, which describe the world being a result of \u201cmaya,\u201d or an illusion. Often, this is expressed through the metaphor of the world being like a dream that one can awaken from. Indeed, a popular definition of the term \u201cBuddha\u201d is someone who has \u201cawakened.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201cSamadhiraja Sutra,\u201d or \u201cKing of Samadhi Sutra<\/a>,\u201d for example, teaches:<\/p>\n

Know all things to be like this:<\/em>
\nA mirage, a cloud castle,<\/em>
\nA dream, an apparition,<\/em>
\nWithout essence, but with qualities that can be seen.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Paramahansa Yogananda<\/a>, a Hindu monk who died in 1952, wrote \u201cAutobiography of a Yogi,\u201d which introduced meditation and yoga to many in the West. Trying to explain the idea of \u201cmaya,\u201d which is often translated as \u201cillusion,\u201d he compared people\u2019s sense of physical reality\u00a0to actors playing in a motion picture<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 relatively new technology in the 1920s, when he came from India to make his home in the United States.<\/p>\n

As I wrote in\u00a0my 2023 book about Yogananda<\/a>, were the famous swami alive today, perhaps he would update the metaphor to use today\u2019s technology: video games.<\/p>\n

In a critical scene in \u201cThe Matrix,\u201d Neo\u2019s mentor, Morpheus \u2013 named after the Greek god of dreams \u2013 tells him that he has been living in a dream world. The simulation hypothesis, too, proposes that people may be living in a dream world, albeit one that is virtual, created and maintained by AI.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the only reaction is to echo Neo and say: Whoa.<\/p>\n

Author Bio:<\/strong> Rizwan Virk is a Faculty Associate, PhD Candidate in Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology at Arizona State University<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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