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Originally Posted by Skybird
The same somebody plays Sim City for. It's fun.
It makes little sense to evaluate the plausability of the idea by standards that only illustrate the current and imaginable limits of human technology. Because human technology may run by rules valid in the universe. That does not mean in principle and for all time to come that they allow humans to assume that their technological skill defines the borders and shapes of the universe. We always only perceive a small part of the universe, reality, space-time-continuum - however you call it. Even our our ideas are right - we can never know to what degree our knowledge pool represents ALL of the universe, whether our knowledge covers a small or a huge - not to mention: ALL - of the universe.
All we know, when we can prove our theories right, is that for the time being the course we have set through the dark void is working for us, has not lead us into shallow waters, and not made us colliding at a cliff. We cannot know whether there are better, safer, more comfortable or shorter courses. We do not know where the course is leading. We do not know how much of the total length we can cover by setting this course, and not another one.
Uncertainty is a characteristic of life, isn't it. For some people, that is a very mind-troubling, frightening perspective. It explains many of man's follies and superstitions.
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Surely whomever created such a complex simulation (an entire universe) perhaps it could be a way to design beings.If you wanted to test an idea what better way than place it in a complex simulation if they (collectively) are able to discover and then crack this simulation to reveal the true universe that would prove extensive intelligence because there could be more than one layer of simulated universe.Of course different things could develop to the end result in different ways.
Much more sandbox than "The Sims". Of course in the Sims things are fairly controlled in complex simulated universe everything else could be a simulation and only the "living" things real and not being controlled directly except for the controls of the simulated physics of course.