Elon Musk Thinks That Our Existence Is Someone Else's Video Game

The eccentric tech mogul made plenty of bold claims during Recode's annual Code Conference on Wednesday -- including that we'll put humans on Mars by 2025 -- but this one takes the cake: Musk believes that our very existence is quite possibly an elaborate computer simulation with great graphics. Essentially, he thinks that our technology is evolving at such a rate that the line between virtual and base reality will soon cease to exist. Given our already blurry reality, Musk says, who's to say humanity hasn't already reached that level of tech, and is now running simulations of past civilizations that are indistinguishable from base reality? "There's a one in billions chance that this is base reality," Musk said. The strongest argument for us being in a simulation probably is the following.