Holy Smokes, AJ. This episode is truly outstanding. I've been familiar with several aspects of the Simulation Theory for several years now, but you've helped me get a better understanding of the ones I already knew, on top of presenting new, ridiculously complex ones in a digestible way. I cannot emphasize enough how appreciative I am of you (and Hecklefish of course) for your videos. Your entire creative process from beginning to end is among the best I've had the pleasure of experiencing. I truly am thankful I randomly stumbled upon your channel several months ago. You've since become my favorite content creator and you set the bar higher & higher with each video. Please never stop ! We'll eventually crush the algorithm gods and get you to the top, where you belong. Thank you again!

It is a simulation. Not being run from a computer though. When my grandad died, for the last 2 days he had one foot in this reality and his other foot in the next one. He used to lift his hands up to the sky and say ‘wow’! Before he died he told my grandmother that this was all an illusion, and that he was going home. This experience made me believe that this reality is a tour of duty: we volunteer to come here and have these terrestrial experiences, here in this dense-matter, linear time reality. Then we end our tour and go home.

In my 31 years of living and learning, the only thing I have truly learned, is that I know absolutely nothing...

My mother had cancer and when she died, I was asleep in another house, my mother woke me up to say goodbye, there were no words! just the feeling of the words! It's hard to explain! I lay there in bed knowing it was real somehow, but was still confused. Then a few minutes later my dad came in to tell me my mother had passed! It was SOOO weird and I still can't work it out! It's changed how I view life and the afterlife. I'm not sure what I had experienced but I know it's something!!!

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." -Albert Einstein

I studied chemistry and physics and have a doctorate in physics. Most of my friends in the program believed in the simulation theory BECAUSE of the "if observed" loophole. How does a particle know it is being observed through time? It can't, unless the program tells it to. There is no physical mechanism or law that covers this exception. My advice? Enjoy your time here and be kind to everyone. Don't sweat the small stuff. Be positive, and maybe positive things will happen to you. Our time here is short. We will never know all the secrets, but it is fun to speculate.

This is definitely something I've considered, but every time I come to the same conclusion: it just doesn't matter. Reality is reality, whether simulated or otherwise. Live your life the best you can, because your experiences and perception are real, even if the world isn't.

2001 Rio de Janeiro a man came in the gym with fine clothes, changed to sportwear and asked to workout with me. His name was Henrique, he was tall blond extremely handsome, intelligent and well mannered, docile and a little feminine. I asked if he was foreigner he said no, and I live in your street (backstreet). So we workout some 6 months and everytime after the gym he acompanied me untill my home, a halfmile elevation and he never entered his home , actually a backhouse, a small shack between the first two properties. Just once we got the same bus. He had to run to get in. But then he wasnt coming to the gym anymore and when I went to his house after him (he said he lived there with his wife) his house didnt exist anymore! That man was real and the best friend I ever had. I put my life on this words

When I was in middle school I ran into my great aunt Bess in the hallway of my school. I immediately stopped talking to my friends, ran over to her and excitedly greeted her. She stood there just bewildered bc it was not her, but I was so sure I could have debated it and asked for her identification, but I didn't. I was completely deflated and embarrassed. Also, I swear I willed my husband into existence. My favorite movie growing up was The Labyrinth with David Bowie. I watched it until the vhs wouldn't work. Some 20 years later I truly believed i was deserving of the love and kind of man I had in my heart and I'll be damned my now husband isn't a David, with red hair and a had a dog named Toby. It might sound silly, but it's the darnedest thing.

When I was young, around 4, I remember watching peabugs crawing around in my nans back yard, and I remember thinking, we could be being watched like I'm watching them, and we both don't know. That memory hasn't left me in 60 years..

Does anyone panic when they think too hard about the universe and why we are here? It scares the crap outta me.

Im a James Bond fan from my childhood. Watched it all on TV. She definitely had braces, that was the visual gag. His teeth and her braces. !!!

Everytime i think about the Mandela effect i get chills. I have so many false memories throughout my life its truly unexplainable.

hats off to whoever made the simulation, the graphics are kick ass. Best first-person life sim ever.

The last 3 years should have all people questioning reality.

When I was in a 2 day coma, Aliens were circled around as I was laying flat on the ground on a strange mountain, they were shooting electrical currents into my mouth, and I woke up eventually, the dream or actual trip to another planet then they woke me up and sent back to regular reality, the trip seemed like it lasted 100 years. Glad to be alive, and I thank whatever or whoever kept me alive.

Hey AJ! So I have to tell this story as it is quite relevant to this video. When I was in middle school, my friends and I wrote a song for a peanut butter company. We were hoping they would use it as a jingle in one of their ads. It went like this, "Jiffy peanut butter; it's the best. Better than Skippy and all of the rest and so we sing, peanut peanut butter; not Skippy. Peanut peanut butter; just Jiffy." We laughed and hung up the phone. It was a really exciting thing for us at that age, and I will never forget it. I am convinced that Jiff was indeed Jiffy.

If we're living in a simulation, could we just tell the dude who's running it on his server to do a huge virus scan ASAP please, we're deeply infected and crippled by this insanity infection.

A few months before she died, my mother asked me if I thought this is a simulation. Very unexpected, coming from an 84-year-old woman.

............but I remember she had braces. It's a very clear memory of her smiling back at him with braces.

The weirdest dream I've had recently was where I 'woke up' each time in 3 different lifestyles as 3 different people. But my subconscious still knew it was incorrect within those people's bodies somehow, but chose to go through it, much like a program. It really felt like I could hear, smell and see these different places as well as experience time there. I would then go to 'sleep' only to wake up in a new body and new surroundings. Freaked me the hell out when I finally woke up. Thank you for this amazing video and more insight😁

The scariest thing to me is the idea of never dying. Being aware forever. You die here but just continue on somewhere else. Just like when you sleep, you’re still existing in a “dream”, wether you remember it in THIS dream or not, you were aware somewhere.

The fact that the particles know they're being observed is mind blowing

We were given an unsolvable problem to occupy us, and within the rules we can never break out, not while we are burdened in/by flesh...

God made this world 🌎 simulation to test us which one of us is righteous, and which one of us is evil❤

Being in a simulation does not downgrade the meaning of your life, if this is what our reality is then it is better to just live in it. The decisions you make right now still matter, and you can still experience happiness and enjoyment as it is.

What always gets me is the unreachable boundries of space, it's like how a game makes an infinite ocean to prevent you from going off the map...

Food for thought: 1. We have chosen the current reality we live. 2. We have lived diverse realities over many lifetimes.

This was a really good video! One thing I don't get, whenever I hear about this topic, is the emphasis on the simulation being an ancestor simulation when it can be any other kind of simulation. I'd imagine you can create a simulation with whatever laws you choose and that would mean that the reality that is simulating ours could be drastically different from this one. I guess this adds a whole lot more complexity or uncertainty to the hypothesis though.

The older I get, the more I wonder about things like this. Thanks for the thought provoking video.

One thing I find fascinating is how dreams are also sort of like simulations, and for many of us, they are alternate realities. Sometimes I have dreams that seem to repeat. It’s like I know I’ve had that dream before, even though that dream is different from my assumed reality. Dreams also seem to be rendered like a video game. Sometimes they lack details and things are created as you think of them. At least that’s how mine seem work. I have experienced dreams where I’ve had conversations that feels like I’m conversing with another mind. Questions were posed. Answers were presented. Fascinating video!

The night when my father passed away, my 3 siblings and I all collectively had a dream that we were in our father's car and he was driving us into the sunset. That was 11 years ago, and I can still see it in detail.

Someone I once knew out of the blue asked me, "Wow! Now, what did you do to get here?" I was taken aback at first, not knowing or grasping fully what they meant by saying something like that. So I asked. But when they said it again. Something in me pondered the idea of "the Matrix". Interesting.

One of the things that tickles my brain the most about the idea that this reality is a simulation is the idea that whoever the "programmer" is, whoever is watching, is watching us come to this slow realization. I always wonder if within this simulation, their goal was to see how long it would take us to realize it for certain. Or maybe despite their best efforts, we came far enough to "crack" their code. It's all brain candy though. Fun to think about but in the long run, nothing changes for us. We are still held to the rules of this reality, regardless of who or what made it. We still must watch after our health, participate in society, do our work and attain currency. I've always had some hope that a realization of reality as it truly is might be rewarded in some way, but something tells me that even if we're dead on, no one is going to tell us jack.

Can't get enough of this show... This episode is still in my playlist because the double-slit is probably the most fascinating experiment to ponder.

The more people are suffering, the more likely they are to not want reality to exist. If we could skip consequences by changing our reality, nobody would be behind bars.

When I was still a child, 6, 7, maybe 8... I was wondering if my room, my toys, the house I was living in... was still existing while I was away. I was wondering if the food in the fridge was still existing when the door was shut. I remember being yelled at to stop opening the so many times and as fast as I could to look at the inside of the fridge... 😅

It's very fascinating to realize that our brains can create simulations during sleep allowing us to engage in whatever activities we imagine.

This video is absolutely amazing and probably makes the most sense out of anything I’ve ever heard. The experiment they did that you went over was really interesting to me and to tie it up at the end with the simulation/religion Venn diagram type information really gets you thinking, you CAN’T disprove the theory. Awesome video

I started looking into this about 10 years ago and ever since my life has felt like a simulation. I think I peeped behind the curtain and disrupted my timeline or something.

It’s funny how we always relate our existence and reality to where we are with technology.

When I was a young kid I used to believe that if I moved around the corner real fast I would see people not moving and then they would start up when I observed them. I actually do believe we are living in a simulation of some kind, I also believe “Thoughts are energy that manifest reality”.

Faith and science are 100% compatible I’ve always thought that. Things that people use to try and disprove God proves him the more the way I see it.

My neighbors were recently telling me about a shop nearby and a man with a beard standing in front of the shop everyday. I have lived here for 8 years and had absolutely no recollection of that shop or man. I pass by it everyday and there is now another shop there and no bearded man.. they stand by it but this is really a mind f*ck to me!! 🤯🤯🤯

I have waited all my 73 years for someone to explain to me the odd occurrences in my life, and now thanks to AJ and Hecklefish I am beginning to see the light. Thank you two!

As much as you hate the evil KZfaq algorithm, it suggested this video to me right before the new year, and I'll tell you what, I went back and started from the beginning of your channel to watch every episode one after the other until I got here again. I don't think I've ever binged a KZfaq channel like this, EVER. you're doing something special here AJ. Thank you. Back to my binging now.

Perhaps we collectively create the simulation. This is why the observer changes the reality. Look inward and you’ll see god. Look outward and see god. As above, so below. To all those in the comments who are stuck in confusion I wish you peace and clarity. What uplifts you uplifts me. Thank you WhyFiles for providing a space for all of us to share with each other and consider these topics at our leisure ✨

It isn't a computer simulation. People just call it that because we are obsessed with computers right now. There are different dimensions, or planes of existence. Physical reality is different from objective reality, the place we come from when we are born, and the place we go back to when we die. We incarnate here in the physical realm from the spirit realm, or energetic realm. This is a real place. We are really here. But it's a temporary visit. Our true selves live eternally in the energetic realm. We come here to learn and grow.

I had a dog who died suddenly and unexpectedly from kidney failure. I was really sad and missed her but moved on as you do but always felt bad I had left her at the vets for tests not knowing she would die there. One night months later I saw her in a dream with light streaming from her, looking wildly happy and telepathically told me my sadness had held her near me but now she was leaving so there was no point to my being sad any more. I could see forests behind her and I really felt that was her wolf spirit that came through. That was 40 years ago and i can still see her glowing in that dream like a laser beam. So strange

Life is not a problem to solve but a reality to experience.

So the simulation theory is smart enough to realize that's being watched, but not that they unplugged the machine that does the watching.😮

The Golden Ratio tripped my mind 40 years ago, never heard of the concept of a simulation at that time.

By far, one of the best explanations of Simulation Theory that I've ever found!

Each video has impressed me with the research that it takes to create it. However, this one has completely blown my mind! AJ idk if you do all of this by yourself or you have a team that assists. But you really outdid yourself and this proves just how incredibly brilliant you are. Because this is not an easy subject to cover nor is it easy to create and explain such a complex matter in terms/ ways that the average person can follow along and understand! PLEASE don’t ever stop being such a good and kind human. We all know most of what you cover are conspiracies that are proven false BUT the content you create allows us to escape from reality for a bit and makes us think on a different level! THANK. YOU. for your dedication to creating this content and for listening to your followers and choosing topics we have suggested. By doing so it proves how much you love and care about your followers/ supporters!!

❤🎉🎉 nice job AJ I didn't think I was going to like this one . Also we said the same thing at the end ... Keep up the good work

When I vision this personally it's like a video game. As in our bodies have a soul, and the soul is the true original self. So when we die our soul goes to another place that is able to go through places that a human being cant go to. Places like going through space, and different dimensions to get to the next destination. I personally believe in God, so I think when we die our soul goes to heaven. Heaven is somewhere in a dimension that we cant see. Just like how demons terrorize people, but are never able to be seen unless they take over a person then you can totally tell theres a different being inside that person. This simulation is one that a person is on this earth, and is constantly tested by the creator. And we have this body temporarily ( around 120 years) and haven't personally seen this creator but are supposed to have faith. And the fact that we haven't seen this creator and Still have this strong faith is the main ingredient of good faith. The unknown. Its said in the bible ( the oldest book known to mankind) when this world is done, and the ones that go to heaven. Will then get new bodies and go to a new world. So this is a simulation. People hear the word bible abd instantly get hard headed and anything they hear about the bible goes in 1 ear and out the other. But if you actually learn about the bible, it's extremely old text found buried, and preserved. People find Egyptian texts interesting. Well the bible is many many ancient texts that were translated and turned into a book named the bible. Try to find anything in the bible being false and you'll time and time again find yourself proving yourself wrong. Its insane how actual things were written and predicted in a book thousands of years ago, and actually happened or happening.

Have you ever met someone, a complete stranger. And you could swear that you already met them. Know them. Met someone you like immediately ? Met someone that scares the crap out of you, but you can’t figure out why ? I’m not taking in a prejudice way. Just in an odd way. In my 69 yrs. I have experienced these feelings at times. Enjoyed your posts. ❤😊

There is something else after we leave this life. My father, moments before he passed, looked upwards, reached towards something and said, "it's so beautiful" I guess the only way we will know is on that day we pass on

Again, such a well done episode! Kudos….though hecklefish was very behaved - did you threaten his allowance?

Ever notice there isn't any footage of people in buildings interacting ? You'll see them in the street or cars but never through any windows.

If we are in a simulation, I am beyond angry for getting such screwed up health problems

I nearly died once and was unresponsive for 5 or so hours, for weeks after I would get Deja Vu constantly and when I would drive past the hospital, no matter what time of day or day of the week I'd see the same person oposite the hospital on the otherside of the road, in the same spot, walking in the same direction, in the same clothes for weeks.

I have reoccurring dreams throughout my life were I go back to and realize these fake characters are in other dreams where I say to myself hey it’s you again … … in different scenarios… super weird .. also dream of dead relatives.. I’ve asked them how are you here if you’re dead .. they responded by saying “ time is not linear “ you can be anywhere at any time !

6:59 me too…. Your recreation gave me chills…. Why else would she smile like that n then they click…. Like wasn’t that part of the point….

I had Dejavu one time, with my brother and another man that passed us in a Dillard's in Florida. You could tell the guy that walked by was having it as well, from the look on his face. Once we passed, my brother looked at me and said, "Man, that was strange. I just had Dejavu and could tell that guy that walked by was having it too."....well, so was I. And I could tell that guy was also......super strange.

There has to be a reality somewhere for a simulation to exist.

"What the beep do we know?" Is a great documentary that gets into this! My 1st introduction to all this cool mind bending stuff! (Double slit theory)

Still ur best ep. AJ. swear no one can argue this idc.

It makes me laugh so hard that certain aspects of our universe act differently when we observe them. I absolutely love how much more ridiculous the universe gets the more we find out.

Love that you brought up the "what's the difference" point. Everyone I've seen talk about the simulation theory seems to completely miss the idea that a "simulation" is the same as a "creation" depending on who designed it

For a moment, I was asking myself why I hadn’t watched this episode before. Then it dawned on me that I probably had already seen it.

This channel is amazing, It really gets you thinking about such a variety of things. Thanks for all the hard work keeping our minds open.

Once you have accepted we are in a simulation, be it God's vivid imagination or a giant computer, the next question is: are we a product of the simulation or are we creatures from outside the simulation currently playing the game?

I believe the Mandala effect was a shift in frequency! I grew up with the Bernstein Bears and noone will convince me otherwise!

That "feeling" that you are right AJ. Thanks for this! It's why I don't fear death. Because I'm convinced it's only simulated. The next glitch you experience is me forcing a lottery win. :-)

The entire segment on interference pattern has officially fried my brain. Once observed, particles reverse course through time and simply choose the proper pattern for the situation. Completely mind-blowing.

When I was a kid I opened a book and the pages was empty. My mother came from around the corner I told her what was wrong. She told me go to bed, and I did listen. Next morning I ran to the book and everything was normal. My mother has no recollection of this incident and it wasn't a dream. Probably wasn't really her but someone that would ease my mind. The Brain pushes out useless info and i remember like it was yesterday 32 years later. Just wanted to share with everyone in case you ever kept things to yourself because of what people may think.

Man I love your show . I tell my smart friends about the show . This is one of your best . Keep ringing the class bell ❤

"If observed" loophole sounds like the a good place to start in answering the question to simulation theory, I really feel Humans do have the potential to dig deeper into these questions, otherwise why be able to conceive them in the first place?

Two months later and I'm back here watching this again. Several times. This is easily the best episode and most thought-provoking you have done to date. 👍🇺🇲

If this isn't reality, how bad is reality that they need to escape it to live like us.

Just a little thought will debunk this entire simulation nonscense. Say a person decides to drink and drive and crashes into your car on the way home and kills your friends who you were taking back home from dinner. Who caused the accident and who is to blame? Do you say to yourself, that was programed into the simulation. The creator of the simulation is to blame since he programmed it so. Human beings are just avatars without free will. All that happens was programmes to happen so no one but the creator of the simulation is responsible for all the suffering in this world. Therefore we should not hold anyone responsible for anything because they cant be held responsible in a simulation. No one has free will of thought or action therefore there is no such thing as right or wrong, as free will, or goals and aspitations. If its not programmed then you cannot go against the code and accomplish your goals..Reality and society break down into nothing and everyone can do anything that comes into their minds without consequences because their thoughts were programmed. God or the programmer of the simulation is then evil as he is the programmer of all the evil in the world an so then God becomes the villain and man is not responsible for anything. So the conclusion is that humans cannot be held accountable and God is to be blamed for everything. All who have read their Bibles know were that theory comes from.

I love how AJ dances at the end. This is a great show! One of my favorites : )

Many years ago, I had a dream where I lost my family (not my real one) in a tornado within a blizzard. The dream took place around an old-farmhouse with dirt roads. I was there with them, as we were swept up. I felt the heartbreak of a parent losing their children (I have no kids), the terror, the bite of the frost. I still remember it to this day and I don't think I will ever forget it. It's almost as if it actually happened on some level.

I usually try to be there for the release of each video for the past 2 years but its wild how when I revisit these there’s always super fresh comments. Its amazing how this channel produces positive engagement and it just shows how everyone is curious and full of questions about our reality.

AJ, I enjoy your videos so much, and hecklefish is my spirit animal

“a prophet is not welcomed in his own home”

I actually became interested in this theory after my father told me about one of his experience.... He visited a state of India for his work and it was his first time travelling there, on there 2nd last day they were visiting one of the famous temples. They hired a priest as there guide for probably 2 hours. And when the priest was about to take them to another place in the temple....suddenly my father started feeling that he came here before, without anyone's guide he climbed up one of the staircases and suddenly pointed finger in the front saying there should be a wooden swing there.....and suddenly he asked a question "is this the place where one of the tiger incidents happened? ".....That priest was literally shocked since it happened 50 years ago and only locals of that area knew about it ......then the priest asked him that if he had visited this place before. And then the next second my father forgot what he was going to say next and was literally shocked....other people who were with him..( his assistant, the driver and one of his interns) were shocked too!! At first I thought maybe he is just making stuff up....because he is a really good story teller but then a few months later that intern came to my father with box of sweets since finally his internship was completed and he could now practice law. They were talking then that intern mentioned that incident and they started talking casually about it. At that time l knew that my father was telling the truth! I also get thoughts that maybe he just remembered about his past life for a split second....or maybe he had some kind of a vision about that place for a second and then he forgot.....l also think that maybe there was a glitch and that he was reprogrammed and resetted and thus forgot what just happened.....maybe for a split second he realized his reality being in a stimulation but was reprogrammed thus forgetting about it. Idk l just keep getting these fascinating ideas!! But whenever l share them with my friends they think that l am being delusional 😒🤧

It really doesn't matter if this is a simulation or not. The characters in a book don't know they are characters in a book, they just know their own reality

Whenever I try to let my friends know about the (my opinion) best researched, impeccably narrated, hilariously informative, host might be an CIA asset, show in the world… I tell ‘em to start here and you’re welcome. AJ and HF are top tier!

In my religion, we believe this life is a test. That's why there has to be a beginning (we're born) and the end (we're dead). And that's why we are given free will to choose between doing good or evil in this test. In the afterlife, we'll live forever for eternity, either spending our life in punishment (based on our crime in this life) or get the reward (based on our good deeds). On the day of judgment, our lips (which we used to lie a lot in this life) will be sealed and other parts of our body will testify for/against us. For example: Our hands will speak what they were used for in this life. Stealing or helping people...Because God is the most just.

I love how you straightforwardly explain complex concepts, which is very difficult to achieve. Congratulations, great job.

So this episode is basically a simulation of us thinking about whether or not we are in a simulation

I was watching this video while brushing my hair, and I quite literally got a deja vu, just when he was explaining Fabianocci sequence, my heart literally skipped a beat, (not kidding) I can swear on my life that I still have a distinct memory where I was brushing my hair, watching this video on my phone, with those random 1+1 numbers, which I've just bought, from like 5 years ago.

You are absolutely right about God and reality. Something had to create our universe and someone is watching us. If this is not God, or what I call God,then I believe we wouldn’t exist. Our reality and simulation are the same. I learn so much from your channel. Please don’t get me wrong, I believe in God but if other people don’t then that is their business. Keep the videos coming!

The double slit experiment reminds me of a situation where animals in the wild were exposed to a mirror. When they observed their reflections some became confused as they did not understand that they were looking at themselves, even though they could control the reflective image through their own behavior. Perhaps the "Observer Effect" is like that. We can control the outcome of the double split experiment through our own behavior, but we're confused because we don't understand how we can be the mechanism that creates it. Some of the animals in the wild never understood that they were looking at themselves, but some did. I'm pretty sure that they didn't understand how the mirror worked, but they did recognize their own image. I think that's where we are. We recognize and accept that the Observer Effect is real, but we just don't understand in this case it's more than a mere reflection of some sort. Observation can actually collapse energy into matter.

I love how confidently both Neil and Elon delivers those probability numbers they clearly just pulled out their ass.

That, in order to simulate our universe, you need an even bigger universe to simulate ours in, is not elegant.

I've had these random "deja vuish" moments all my life where I'll be doing something and I'll be thinking to myself "is this real?" "Am I really here right now?" while literally in the middle of an action or activity I'm doing. It's a weird feeling but it's reoccurring.

while everything we experience may be ”fake” and ”unreal” our feelings we go through in life are ”real” so we should still care for our actions