In the age of video games, social media and AI, a new technoscientific narrative about the future and the nature of our universe: the simulation hypothesis. In some cases, it has the potential to redefine traditional religions but also to become a new “religion for atheists”. What does development of AI and NPCs have to do with what the ancient sacred texts from Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and others have to say about the true in effable nature of reality?

In this talk I explore where the simulation hypothesis is a set of new technoscientific metaphors for what the sacred texts have been telling us all along. In doing so we’ll find that the simulation hypothesis has not only the ability to bridge the large gap between science and religion, but also to provide a metaphorical bridge across all religion