Simulation Theory Brings an AI Twist to Ideas Mystics and Religious Scholars Have Voiced for Centuries, Rizwan Virk's 2025 essay in The Conversation, traces simulation theory's overlap with Hindu and Buddhist teachings on maya and with older accounts of a creator standing behind the world in other traditions. Its strength is that The Conversation is an edited outlet publishing essays written by named academics under their own byline, here an Arizona State University researcher. Its limit is that it is a single author's essay rather than a peer reviewed academic article, so a claim resting on it should also be checked against dedicated peer reviewed scholarship on the comparison.
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Rizwan Virk's Simulation Theory Brings an AI Twist to Ideas Mystics and Religious Scholars Have Voiced for Centuries, published in The Conversation in 2025, the middle tier reflecting an edited outlet publishing essays written by named academics under their own byline, here an Arizona State University researcher, tracing simulation theory's overlap with Hindu and Buddhist teachings on maya. Its limit is that it is a single author's essay rather than a peer reviewed academic article. NotesEssay by an Arizona State University researcher on simulation theory, tracing its overlap with Hindu and Buddhist teachings on maya and with older accounts of a creator standing behind the world in other traditions, published 13 November 2025 in The Conversation, an edited outlet written by named academics.
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AuthorRizwan Virk
PublisherThe Conversation
Publication Year2025
URLhttps://theconversation.com/simulation-theory-brings-an-ai-twist-out-of-the-matrix-to-ideas-mystics-and-religious-scholars-have-voiced-for-centuries-269335
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Maya, Figures This source names Maya directly: "with Hindu and Buddhist teachings on maya and with older accounts of a creator standing behind the world in other traditions."
Source Simulation Theory Brings an AI Twist to Ideas Mystics and Religious Scholars Have Voiced for Centuries (Virk, The Conversation, 2025)Rizwan Virk
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