When Elon Musk speaks, the world listens. That's because the founder of Space X, Tesla and PayPal has a powerful vision to chance the world and humanity, and is already doing so with his eco-friendly innovations and intelligent business ventures. From investing in sustainable energy production to reduce global warming to reducing the "risk of human extinction" by "making life multi-planetary" by setting up a human colony on Mars, it cannot be argued that his creative mind has positively benefited humanity's evolution. 

One theory that few have heard of, however – let alone accepted, is the thought that this reality is a simulated one. According to The Independent, the inventor is confident that the possibility of life not being a holographic projection is "one in billions". It's not a fly-by theory, either. Reportedly, Musk has had "so many simulation discussions it's crazy", and that it's gotten to the point where "every conversation [he had] was the AI/simulation conversation".

Intriguingly, he's not alone. According to The New Yorker's Tad Friend, 

"Many people in Silicon Valley have become obsessed with the simulation hypothesis, the argument that what we experience as reality is in fact fabricated in a computer." Because of this, two tech billionaires have gone so far as to secretly engage scientists to work on breaking us out of the simulation."

Whether or not Musk is one of the investors in the venture to free humanity's collective is unknown, but what is common knowledge is that Musk thinks this reality is a simulated one.

At the Code Conference earlier this year, the investor said:

"The strongest argument for us probably being in a simulation I think is the following. 40 years ago we had Pong – two rectangles and a dot. That's where we were.

"Now 40 years later we have photorealistic, 3D simulations with millions of people playing simultaneously and it's getting better every year. And soon we'll have virtual reality, we'll have augmented reality," he continued. "Now 40 years later we have photorealistic, 3D simulations with millions of people playing simultaneously and it's getting better every year. And soon we'll have virtual reality, we'll have augmented reality.