Are we living in a simulation? Scientist claims we’re simply characters in an advanced AI world – and says the proof is hidden in the Gospel of John ( not least the ‘Gnostic Nag Hammadi’ texts), see my decades of research and books on the bigger picture as to ‘why’

If you feel like you’re living in a convincing virtual reality akin to The Matrix, a scientist thinks you may well be right.

Melvin Vopson, an associate professor in physics at the University of Portsmouth, claims our entire universe may be an advanced computer simulation.

And the proof that this so-called simulation hypothesis is correct may be hiding in plain sight in the Bible.

Professor Vopson told MailOnline: ‘The bible itself tells us that we are in a simulation and it also tells us who is doing it.

‘It is done by an AI – an artificial intelligence.’

Professor Vopson points to the Gospel of John, one of the first four books of the New Testament, the second part of the Christian Bible.

Gospel of John opens with the powerful statement: ‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.’

The professor says this verse has ‘deep theological significance in Christian doctrine’, but it also carries ‘intriguing implications’ when considered in the context of the universe as a simulation.

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