165: Are We Living in a Simulation?

On this episode, Payton explores the Simulation Hypothesis, diving into the latest theories, unsettling evidence, and the growing question: what if our reality isn’t real at all?
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Case Sources:
Science Daily - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/11/251110021052.htm
The Think Institute - https://thethink.institute/articles/simulation-theory-debunked
University of Rochester - https://www.library.rochester.edu/about/news/simulation-theory-ultimate-existential-crisis
Builtin - https://builtin.com/hardware/simulation-theory
National Library of Medicine - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7516678/
Vulture - https://www.vulture.com/2019/02/15-irrefutable-reasons-we-might-be-living-in-a-simulation.html
https://www.vulture.com/2019/02/nick-bostrom-on-whether-we-live-in-a-matrix-simulation.html
Wired - https://www.wired.com/story/malware-dna-hack/
Bored Panda - https://www.boredpanda.com/glitch-in-matrix-stories/
Dev - https://dev.to/sarahcssiqueira/did-a-physicist-find-error-correcting-code-in-reality-and-what-that-means-to-us-developers-19b7
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