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Background and Career Journey
I mean if you think about the universe, some people say there it's a big simulation, right? And yet if we think about what that means, a simulator is usually software that's running something that mimics something else, right? (1:05) Well, the simulation that's running our universe is running the universe. It's giving us the universe. It's not a simulation of the universe.
It's but there's an underlying information structure and the reason I say that is this is called the simulation hypothesis. (1:22) Other people are thinking about this too. And the question is I'm interested in and I've had professional simulation experience of multiple kinds. (1:37) It's one that was that was a piece of software that I wrote in the 80s and 90s that we actually sold to other company for some money because it was a useful simulator, very fast. And so I know about simulations. So when I say what do you have to have as a simulator that's more primitive than quantum computing such that quantum computing can also be run on that. That's how I think and essentially that's what my PhD was 25 years ago already.
So I'm just a guy ahead of my time. (1:45) But it all started because I look at the universe as information. So I was interested in computer science back in high school. This was in 1968 when I was like a sophomore in high school. Okay. And so very few people were programming in high school back then but I was and so I have been working on that so long. (2:21)
The Role of Consciousness and Existons
I was learning all these languages back then. So when I went into college I decided well there wasn't really a computer science degree at that time yet. It was like classes you would take as part of electrical engineering. (2:45) So I was an electrical engineer. I have three degrees in electrical engineering: bachelor's, masters, and PhD, but it's all related to different topics.
One is more computer engineering and my whole career has been a professional electrical engineer doing software and electrical engineering areas like supporting computer aided design for semiconductors and stuff like that. (2:54) Again, simulators. So, I understand how to do all that stuff, and so when I say the universe is a simulator, it really is. And yet it's a completely different simulator than all the computers that run all those virtual games right now in the clouds. (3:16)
So, but I was interested in information at a very young age and then all of a sudden I realized, oh, 'Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain.' That book came out in the 70s and I go, well, if any of this is true, then there's a whole different model of information than any classical computer physicist knows about. And so, what are those laws? And so, fast forward in the 1990s, I ended up hosting a workshop on physics and computing and 100 people showed up because I invited Ralph Landauer as my keynote speaker from IBM and everybody goes, 'Well, if he's coming then I want to be there.' (3:44)
The Universe as a Non-Physical Simulation
And it was basically he says information is physical. And he did it in the 60s, but nobody knew what that meant. But he was the pioneer in the sense that he was at IBM and his researcher and he did his work and then it really created the whole notion of reversible computing even and low power computing. (4:21) So his ideas were fundamental and now they've proved that his model is true and in fact people like John Wheeler also said the same thing. It's basically 'it from bit.' Everything comes from bits. Okay. So those two guys are my heroes, right? Plus Robert Monroe 'Journeys Out of the Body' where he was doing astral projection for the mind. So the mind, even though the universe is a simulation and it's information-oriented, what is the representation for mind to allow it to do astral projection or any other kind of metaphysical stuff. (4:46)
Intuition, Telepathy, and Higher Awareness
Okay. So this was the stuff that was building in me in the 70s and the 80s and the 90s. Okay. So finally I says, okay, I need to go and work on a PhD in quantum computing because Shor's algorithm came out in 1994 and Peter Shor came to my conference. He didn't introduce it there but he presented about his work on Shor's algorithm. (5:23) Shor's algorithm is very important because it shows that quantum computers are exponentially more powerful than any classical computer so if the mind is a quantum computer that means it can do things that classical brain models cannot do. So I said, 'Okay, then I better learn about quantum computing.'
So a couple years later, I started a PhD in 1997 or 98 and essentially three years later while working full-time, I had a PhD in quantum computing from the University of Texas at Dallas. (5:37) And I basically did quantum computing using a new kind of math called geometric algebra. And the reason why I was using that kind of math is because the math I showed that you could represent bits as vectors. So now bits weren't just software. Bits were part of physics which they needed to be to have a go-between between physics—the objective—and the subjective, which is consciousness. (6:07)
Spiritual Connection and Universal Unity
So you had to say here is an infrastructure simulation infrastructure that starts with bits. And for my PhD, I showed that you can do quantum qubits, quantum computing, and ebits using bits as the primitive. And nobody really had ever done that before or since. A lot of people are working on this kind of math, Clifford algebra or geometric algebra, but everybody's working on the what's called the standard model of physics, right? Using this and it's because it's really good at doing high-dimensional objects in it. (6:37)
Practical Applications and Future Outlook
Okay? And so the net result of that is that I was working on the quantum computing part. So I look at these forms and I go well look here's a six-dimensional space. Well what does that mean to anybody? (7:05) You know orthonormal space of size six or even a 100 or a thousand. You know consciousness is really a million-dimensional state space that is more primitive than quantum computing. And that's what our mind is made of. And I've got some pretty pictures out there on other talks. You can go look at them. Basically, it's a cloud. It's not even a field because space and time don't exist yet in this domain. Okay? And so, therefore, quantum computing is more primitive than the physical world and it's more primitive than space and time. And bits in this hyper-dimensional cloud are the sort of like the layer the fundamental layer of all of this.
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