# The Multiverse Could Mean We Live in a Simulation by Martin Rees > “All these multiverse ideas lead to a remarkable synthesis between cosmology and physics. But they also lead to the extraordinary consequence that we may not be the deepest reality; we may be a simulation. The possibility that we are creations of some supreme, or super-being, blurs the boundary between physics and idealist philosophy, between the natural and the supernatural, and between the relation of mind and multiverse and the possibility that we’re in the matrix rather than the physics itself.” > **— Martin Rees**, *In the Matrix, Edge, 2003* ## Sources and Context - **Direct publication and full context:** [In the Matrix](https://edge.org/conversation/martin_rees-in-the-matrix) — The linked publication contains the quoted passage and its surrounding argument. - **Master research record:** [[research/Martin Rees on Machine Succession, Post-Human Intelligence, and the Cosmic Future|Martin Rees on Machine Succession, Post-Human Intelligence, and the Cosmic Future]] — preserves this object inside the open Martin Rees source dossier. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Article:** [[articles/We Were Never Going to Make It|We Were Never Going to Make It]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Ramanujan Mathematical Universe|The Ramanujan Mathematical Universe]] - **Article:** [[articles/Project Hail Mary and Other Intelligences|Project Hail Mary and Other Intelligences]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Cosmology|Cosmology]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Simulation Hypothesis|Simulation Hypothesis]] - [[wiki/Cosmology|Cosmology]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “All these multiverse ideas lead to a remarkable synthesis between cosmology and physics. But they also lead to the extraordinary consequence that we may not be the deepest reality; we may be a simulation. The possibility that we are creations of some supreme, or super-being, blurs the boundary between physics and idealist philosophy, between the natural and the supernatural, and between the relation of mind and multiverse and the possibility that we’re in the matrix rather than the physics itself.” — Martin Rees, In the Matrix, Edge, 2003 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-martin-rees-multiverse-mean-we-live-simulation ```