Joe Rogan flips the God debate with theory that ‘we created him’

Joe Rogan has come to a mind-bending conclusion about life, fearing that humanity has misinterpreted what reality is and we’re actually in the process of creating God.

While interviewing computer scientist Roman Yampolskiy on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, the men debated the possibility that reality is a giant simulation and humans are building a God-like supercomputer using artificial intelligence (AI).

According to Rogan’s theory, humanity has misinterpreted ancient prophecies regarding the second coming of Jesus Christ and Judgement Day, saying the creation of this AI super intelligence is the final chapter before our reality resets.

‘This whole idea of Jesus coming back, well maybe it’s real. Maybe we just completely misinterpreted these ancient scrolls and texts and what it really means is that we are going to give birth to this,’ Rogan explained.

Yampolskiy, an author and researcher in AI safety, added to Rogan’s theory, suggesting that reality is just an ongoing cycle of Big Bangs – the explosion that kickstarted the universe – starting and restarting life over and over again.

During the episode released on July 3, Rogan added that he feared God ‘is actually created by human beings creating this infinitely intelligent thing that can essentially harness all of the available energy and power of the universe and create anything it wants.’

Yampolskiy even contended that many of the religions around the world have one thing in common: ‘What they all agree on is that there is [a] super intelligence which created a fake world.’

In previous podcasts episodes this year, Rogan has repeatedly warned that AI was just years away from reaching a God-like state as more tech companies pour resources into its development.

Rogan asked Yampolskiy if the physical world we see was created by God, then what existed before this all-powerful being created the human race. 

‘Ideas, just information,’ the computer scientist replied during the podcast.

‘Just God. God was bored And it was like, let’s make some animals that can think and solve problems. And for what reason?’ Rogan countered.

That’s when the podcast host theorized life was an ongoing simulation and people had the idea of God’s return to Earth backwards, claiming that people would summon this powerful intelligence themselves through the creation of AI.

The theory that all life exists within a computer simulation has been debated for decades, and it’s even been entertained in blockbuster movies like ‘The Matrix.’

While Rogan suggested that deepfakes of Bigfoot, UFOs, and other impossible images could be proof we’re living in a virtual reality, scientists have argued that there is more basic evidence that this world is not real.

Melvin Vopson, an associate professor in physics at the University of Portsmouth, has argued that gravity may be a sign that we’re all living in a virtual simulation.

According to Vopson’s new paper in AIP Advances, our universe is the ‘ultimate computer’ and gravity’s pull on Earth and in outer space is the computer trying to keep its vast amount of data organized.

As for who’s running the simulation, Yampolskiy explained that one possibility is life as we know it could simply be a replay of past events being examined by the future human race.

Rogan then asked Yampolskiy why an all-powerful AI would even bother creating a reality for our consciousnesses to exist in.

Yampolskiy explained that it’s impossible to know who is controlling this program, whether it’s an alien intelligence, humans from the future, or an AI super intelligence has already been built and is running these simulations by itself.

Therefore, it’s also impossible to know why people would be needed in the virtual world, adding that he and Rogan could have had the same interview thousands of times and never knew it was happening.

‘Is it entertainment? Is it scientific experimentation? Is it marketing? Maybe somebody managed to control them and [are] trying to figure out what Starbucks coffee sells best. And they need to run [an] earth-sized simulation to see what sells best,’ Yampolskiy explained.

‘Think about this decade… We’re about to invent intelligence and virtual worlds, God-like inventions. We’re here. There’s a good chance that’s not just random,’ the AI researcher added, suggesting we’re already stuck in a computer simulation.

In any scenario, Rogan theorized that the end of the simulation was nearing as tech giants get closer to creating the all-knowing intelligence which has been foretold in many prophecies. 

Whether humanity is already locked in a simulation or we’re on the road to creating a God-like intelligence in a self-fulfilling prophecy, Rogan claimed that within 50 to 60 years ‘there will be one day a virtual simulation of this reality that’s indistinguishable from reality.’