For a slightly different take, a simulation and reality are not that fundamentally different given how both are perceived by senses in a similar way. Like how a VR headset uses the same sense that you use to see real objects.
They start to diverge in a way when you start encountering edge phenomenon that are beyond the scope of the simulation, like how a game would glitch. So far, however much we zoom in or zoom out, reality works consistently. So it is less likely that we’re in a simulation.
There are hard limits in our universe, such as the speed of light and the Planck length. If we find a way to hack those, I wouldn’t be surprised if things will glitch out. More importantly, having these hard limits could very well point towards a simulation, as they could be artifacts of a processor that simulates a universe that seem infinite but in reality isn’t.
To go a bit further: given that quantum mechanics is probabilistic, it seems that the universe is generative within certain probabilistic parameters. Only when observed, it actually generates. Combine this with observers who are severely limited in what they can observe (those hard limits), and you get a really nice universe that seems potentially infinite, but practically is only generated in observed locations. That’s a smart way to simulate a universe!
For a slightly different take, a simulation and reality are not that fundamentally different given how both are perceived by senses in a similar way. Like how a VR headset uses the same sense that you use to see real objects.
They start to diverge in a way when you start encountering edge phenomenon that are beyond the scope of the simulation, like how a game would glitch. So far, however much we zoom in or zoom out, reality works consistently. So it is less likely that we’re in a simulation.
There are hard limits in our universe, such as the speed of light and the Planck length. If we find a way to hack those, I wouldn’t be surprised if things will glitch out. More importantly, having these hard limits could very well point towards a simulation, as they could be artifacts of a processor that simulates a universe that seem infinite but in reality isn’t.
To go a bit further: given that quantum mechanics is probabilistic, it seems that the universe is generative within certain probabilistic parameters. Only when observed, it actually generates. Combine this with observers who are severely limited in what they can observe (those hard limits), and you get a really nice universe that seems potentially infinite, but practically is only generated in observed locations. That’s a smart way to simulate a universe!