#175 - Dr Melvin Vopson - If You Hack The Code Of Reality, You Become God
By Peter McCormack
Aired May 14, 2026 · 1h 23m · Last boosted May 19, 2026
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Physicist Professor Melvin Vopson joins Peter McCormack to discuss information physics, simulation theory, AI, digital life, consciousness, God, free will, and death. Melvin argues that the universe may be governed by information and computation, and that recent advances in brain emulation could force us to confront one of the strangest questions imaginable: if a brain is loaded into a simulation, what exactly wakes up? ...
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@npub14mcddvsjs… this podcast was fantastic, but I left genuinely disappointed that Bitcoin never entered the conversation as the computational reference point for information, energy, and time. Bitcoin could have taken this discussion dramatically deeper and would have allowed you to push back directly on several of Melvin’s assumptions. For years, Bitcoin has br…
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Nice rabbit hole 🐇 🕳️ about what really reality is.
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Let’s explore how #Bitcoin functions as the first species-agnostic monetary system capable of facilitating value transfer between transhuman entities.
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I feel like you have missed the concept of infinity guys. I think you are close. But consider analogue infinity please. 🙏