04-02-2021 08:01 via theguardian.com

Are we all living in the Matrix? Behind a documentary on simulation theory

In A Glitch in the Matrix, film-maker Rodney Ascher speaks to people who are convinced that the world we’re living in isn’t realRodney Ascher’s new documentary A Glitch in the Matrix opens, as so many nonfiction films do, with an interview subject getting settled in their camera set-up. In this instance, a guy named Paul Gude is Skyping in from a setting familiar to anyone who’s spent the last year trapped in video-chats. He’s sitting in what appears to be a bedroom
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