Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2024-05-16
Joe Rogan & Rizwan Virk: books mentioned on The Joe Rogan Experience #2151
#2151 - Rizwan Virk
Rizwan Virk is an entrepreneur, video game pioneer, film producer, computer scientist, and author of several books, among them "The Simulation Hypothesis" and "The Simulated Multiverse." www.zenentrepreneur.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Rizwan Virk recommended Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke, and discussed The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick and others, Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda Paramahansa, Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, and Journey of Souls by Michael Newton. Joe Rogan discussed Communion by Whitley Strieber.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Man in the High Castle
Discussed“so if you run it again maybe things are slightly different the second time you run it um like so Philip K dick came to believe that his novel The Man in the High Castle which was turned into a pretty cool series I don't know if you've uh if you've seen it”
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Autobiography of a Yogi
Discussed“and he wrote a book called autobiography of a yogi I don't know if you ever read it”
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Outliers
Discussed“Malcolm Gladwell wrote that book I think it's called outliers where he say if you spend 10,000 hours doing something you become an expert”
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Journey of Souls
Discussed“there was a there was a u hypnotherapist in who wrote a book called journey of souls Dr Michael Newton”
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Communion
Discussed“he wrote I'm aware of communion communion which you know because communion has had that gray head alien head on the cover it's become kind of the dominant thing”
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Rendezvous with Rama
Recommended“I don't know if you ever read rendevu with Rama which was Arthur C Clark novel in it there's this weird cylinder-shaped object that comes into the solar system”
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Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged The Simulation Hypothesis
“and I lay out like 10 stages in my book of all the technology we would need including brain computer interfaces like in The Matrix right”
Plugged The Simulated Multiverse
“so this is the topic of my second book which is called the simulated Multiverse this idea that each of these timelines uh could be like a different run of the simulation itself”
Passing Outliers
“Now, Malcolm Gladwell wrote that book, I think it's called Outliers, where he says if you spend 10,000 hours doing something, you become an expert.”