https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physics/articles/10.3389/fphy.2025.1561873/full
Roger Penrose - Why Did Our Universe Begin? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypjZF6Pdrws
Why does the universe exist? | Jim Holt | TED https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zORUUqJd81M
The movie Brainstorm doesn't provide any proof of a larger cosmic reality. However, it does provide an interesting depiction of a VR sensory recording system. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueYcVmH0edk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainstorm_(1983_film)#Effects
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/brainstorm-1983
"Michael vows to destroy his work and enlists the help of Karen and Hal. Michael and Karen head to the Pinehurst Resort, and realizing they are under surveillance, stage a fight that ends in Karen leaving for Hal's house. As the two feign reconciliation over the phone, Michael accesses the Brainstorm computer via another phone line while Karen hacks into the system, sabotaging the robots that manufacture the interface terminals. They run amok.
Karen shuts down the security system, locking the staff outside. Michael loads Lillian's tape. With the plant in chaos, Robert orders Michael's arrest.
Karen leaves to meet with Michael at a place important to them. Hal and his wife, Wendy, send the last of Karen's commands to the company computers, shutting down the plant.
Karen follows Michael to a phone booth at the Wright Brothers memorial. The tape plays. Michael bears witness to the afterlife, experiencing a vision of hell, then traveling from Earth and through the universe, even after the tape ends. He ultimately has visions of angels and departed souls flying into a great cosmic Light. Then he collapses. Karen, believing him dead or dying, screams at him, over and over, demanding that he stay with her. Awakening, weeping with joy, Michael points up and whispers, “Look at the stars!” Their embrace, enclosed in a memory bubble, floats into the night." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainstorm_(1983_film)#Plot
What happens when our computers get smarter than we are? | Nick Bostrom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnT1xgZgkpk
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Simulation+Hypothesis
