{"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":"#187 - Danny Goler - DMT, Consciousness & Proof of the Simulation","slug":"187-danny-goler-dmt-consciousness-proof-of-the-simulation","published_at":"2026-06-24T13:49:01+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-peter-mccormack-show-525419/187-danny-goler-dmt-consciousness-proof-of-the-simulation","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-peter-mccormack-show-525419","url":"https://shows.acast.com/the-peter-mccormack-show/episodes/187-danny-goler-dmt-consciousness-proof-of-the-simulation","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/69d4f193b76468caacc5068f/e/6a3a55f4359daa326af88396/media.mp3","summary":"Danny Goler doesn't just argue we're living in a simulation - he claims he's found a way to interact with whoever is running it and that we are the AI they're training before we're \"let out to play.\" His case for simulation theory is built on the hard problem of consciousness, the DMT \"code,\" and a laser experiment that thousands of people say they can replicate. In this interview we discuss idealism vs physicalism, whether AI can ever be conscious, the \"architect\" running infinite worlds to answer one unanswerable question, why he thinks the Ten Commandments were an alignment manual and what changes about how we should live if any of it is true. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 - Proof We Live in a Simulation? 00:01:03 - The Hard Problem of Consciousness 00:02:49 - Can Matter Create Experience? 00:04:50 - What Is Consciousness? 00:05:04 - Is Consciousness Fundamental? 00:08:24 - Is the Universe Conscious? 00:11:35 - Does Consciousness Need an Observer? 00:16:45 - Can the Hard Problem Be Solved? 00:20:08 - Could AI Become Conscious? 00:23:48 - AI Black Boxes and Consciousness 00:28:56 - Why Does Consciousness Exist? 00:31:15 - Are We Living in a Simulation? 00:35:45 - Are Humans the AGI in Training? 00:40:41 - DMT and Other Realities 00:45:07 - The DMT Molecule 00:48:51 - The Entity in the Room 00:58:32 - The Laser Code Experiment 01:03:04 - 10,000 People Seeing the Same Code 01:15:48 - Testing the Code of Reality 01:20:28 - Can We Escape the Simulation? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CONTACT PETE › Website – http://petermccormack.com › Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact › Email – me@petermccormack.c…","meta_description":"Danny Goler doesn't just argue we're living in a simulation - he claims he's found a way to interact with whoever is running it and that we are the AI the…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5889,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-peter-mccormack-show-525419/episodes/187-danny-goler-dmt-consciousness-proof-of-the-simulation/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-525419/187-danny-goler-dmt-consciousness-proof-of-the-simulation.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}