philosophy

The Matrix v0.0.1-alpha

Nathan Broadbent

08 Nov 2025

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This video was generated by the Veo 3.1 AI model on Google Flow.

Correction: This is nothing even close to The Matrix. It just looks like it.

See the Taxonomy of Simulation section in The Reflective Universe Hypothesis.

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