{"podcast":{"title":"The Peter McCormack Show","slug":"the-peter-mccormack-show-525419","podcast_index_feed_id":525419,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/69d4f193b76468caacc5068f","website_url":"https://www.petermccormack.com/","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/69d4f193b76468caacc5068f/show-cover.jpg","author":"Peter McCormack","episode_count":1075,"summary":"The Peter McCormack Show - politics, macro, Bitcoin and AI, long-form interviews. Twice-weekly conversations about money, power, and the shifts reshaping the next decade. Peter McCormack interviews politicians, economists, investors, journalists, founders and Bitcoiners. Past guests include Liz Truss, Lyn Alden, Curtis Yarvin, Matt Goodwin, Mike Green, Balaji Srinivasan, Rupert Lowe, Firas Modad, Scott Horton, Jeff Booth, Connor Leahy, Andrea Miotti, Neema Parvini, Dr Tim Gregory and Simon Dixon. Recurring threads: the debt and inflation endgame, UK political collapse and what comes after, Reform and the populist wave, the Middle East and the American war machine, AI safety and the race for superintelligence, energy and net zero, Bitcoin adoption and policy, and the slow-motion decline of Western institutions. Long-form - most episodes run 60 to 120 minutes. New episodes 2 to 3 times per week. Video on YouTube and Spotify. Host: Peter McCormack, a retired rapper from Bedford, UK, trying to understand this crazy world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-31T06:19:00.527164+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-peter-mccormack-show-525419"},"episode":{"title":"#175 - Dr Melvin Vopson - If You Hack The Code Of Reality, You Become God","slug":"175-dr-melvin-vopson-a-physicist-says-reality-may-be-code","published_at":"2026-05-14T18:06:14+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-peter-mccormack-show-525419/175-dr-melvin-vopson-a-physicist-says-reality-may-be-code","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-peter-mccormack-show-525419","url":"https://shows.acast.com/the-peter-mccormack-show/episodes/175-dr-melvin-vopson-a-physicist-says-reality-may-be-code","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/69d4f193b76468caacc5068f/e/6a060f17a8fad4c1bec32880/media.mp3","summary":"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? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 — If You Hack the Simulation, You Control the Universe! 00:01:25 — Why Does Life Feel Artificial? 00:03:26 — Are We Living in a Simulation? 00:05:45 — What Is Information Physics? 00:10:09 — Information as the Fifth State of Matter 00:11:18 — John Wheeler and “It from Bit” 00:13:33 — Is DNA Just Information? 00:16:08 — Who Created the Creator? 00:19:47 — How Would Mario Prove He’s Inside the Game? 00:25:46 — Does the Universe Optimise Itself? 00:29:35 — Is Symmetry a Form of Compression? 00:30:40 — GTA, Rendering, and Computational Reality 00:32:37 — Error-Correcting Code in Physics 00:37:30 — Could Information Explain Dark Matter? 00:40:24 — If You Hack Reality, You Control the Universe 00:45:36 — “In the Beginning Was the Word” 00:46:29 — “In the Beginning Was the Code” 00:57:20 — What Exactly Wakes Up in There? 01:00:32 — But Is It Me? 01:20:56 — Would Proof of Simulation Change Anything? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CONTACT PETE › Website – http://petermccormack.com › Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact › Email – me@petermccormack.com › Instagram – /mccormack555 › X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/ CONNECT WITH MELVIN VOPSON › Website: – ht…","meta_description":"Physicist Professor Melvin Vopson joins Peter McCormack to discuss information physics, simulation theory, AI, digital life, consciousness, God, free will…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4996,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-peter-mccormack-show-525419/episodes/175-dr-melvin-vopson-a-physicist-says-reality-may-be-code/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-peter-mccormack-show-525419/175-dr-melvin-vopson-a-physicist-says-reality-may-be-code.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}