Maybe Could Be Possible

I started to feel that I may have Discovered the user interface reality The reason that I thought that is that my life was working out so well That I couldn't explain it in any ordinary way I tried to become a cartoonist with no experience in cartooning Without any experience, I was the hottest cartoonist in the country At about the same time, I had written my first book It was a number one New York Times, runaway bestseller With no experience at writing books And there were a number of things that I was touching And doing and it seemed as if I could manipulate reality But here's the thing But here's the thing Was I manipulating reality to get these ridiculous results or, Was I simply good at my job? How can I tell? How would I know if I were manipulating reality, 'cause that's sort of what it felt like But that didn't seem right, right? Or was I just good at my job and I didn't realize how good I was so I performed better than I expected Maybe Could be It's possible Maybe Could be It's possible And it seemed as if I could manipulate reality But I wanted to test it Maybe Could be It's possible And so, in 1997, I did a bold experiment and the experiment was this I very publicly and annoyingly made a prediction and I chose an area in which I had no expertise I thought I would try something that was just impossible I would make the most unlikely prediction and then Wait as long as it took for it to become true And if indeed I could get the most unlikely prediction, Then maybe other people would believe me when I explained to them the user interface for reality I predicted that in my lifetime, the theory of Evolution would be debunked in scientific terms Not in religious terms but in scientific terms You can imagine how well that went over Obviously, I'm a nut and I should not be listened to And you shouldn't listen to anything else I ever say That was 22 years ago, 23 years ago So something happened today that was a very big deal in my life And it was that there was a podcast, Patrick Courrielche, He told a story, he heard of my prediction about evolution Being debunked and then he, He brought the story into the question of the simulation Now of course, if the simulation is true, Then what we believe about evolution probably isn't 'Cause you don't need evolution, if you have the simulation We just are here and our history is created on Demand whenever we go looking for it Maybe Could be It's possible Maybe Could be It's possible And it seemed as if I could manipulate reality But I wanted to test it Maybe Could be It's possible What Patrick did is told you something that I couldn't do myself I couldn't tell you that my prediction had actually came in I've been trying to, but I feel like I failed at it Because I'm not credible about judging my own predictions Obviously, I'm mistaken If the simulation is true, evolution is, so 22 years later, There's now a competing theory that Serious scientists buy into and, although you can't tell Which one is the true one if either one is, Maybe neither, maybe they're just filters What you can tell is the odds Maybe a billion to one for the simulation Maybe Could be It's possible Maybe Could be It's possible And it seemed as if I could manipulate reality But I wanted to test it Maybe Could be It's possible So, having nailed my 22 year gamble That I could make a prediction so unlikely That the best explanation is that somehow I'm authoring the reality just as filter, again, That doesn't mean that I can actually change reality, It means that if I put that filter on it, I get good results And if you just think you're happy but you're not, Are you happy? Yes you are If you think you're happy, you're happy If you thought you went through life as a Billionaire but you were just crazy and you weren't, still good? Still good 'Cause you're happy, you thought you were a billionaire So, accept your subjective life Maybe Could be It's possible Maybe Could be It's possible And it seemed as if I could manipulate reality But I wanted to test it Maybe Could be It's possible