In our day-to-day lives, we see little outside of our own small worlds. We have our homes, our towns, our states, and the areas we’ve visited to envision and digest. We don’t often consider how tiny we are in this giant universe, how little we know about what is out there besides what we have on Planet Earth. But when we do, it can quickly go from fascinating to mind-boggling. Are we really the only human-inhabitated planet? Is there a more advanced species out there besides us? Are we even, dare I say, real?
One theory which has been circulating for some time suggests that we might be living in a computer simulation. And while most people would quickly balk at the idea, Elon Musk isn’t one of them.
One of the greatest visionaries and inventors of our time, Musk – the founder, CEO, and CTO of SpaceX, the co-founder, CEO, and product architect of Tesla Motors, the co-founder and Chairman of SolarCity, the co-chairman of OpenAI, the co-founder of Zip2, and the co-founder of PayPal _ said in a recent interview that we may, indeed, be characters in a highly-advanced civilization’s video game.