Our universe is most likely a computer simulation

[caseymoz]

78. Begs several questions.

First, is it possible for creatures that think they exist and are conscious to be utterly mistaken? In a universe of unknown simulations status, if a creature thinks erroneously it's intelligent, would that negate the possibility that the universe is simulated? Or would it negate the possibility that the simulation is successful? I mean, if there's one thing we know about any creature, they're fallible, even in making mistakes about the state of their own thoughts and thought processes.

"The core question is this: Is it possible, in any time or place in any universe, for a universe to be simulated that contains entities that believe themselves to be conscious and real?

"If it is possible for our universe, and ourselves within it, to be a computer simulation then the odds are overwhelming that we, you and I, are in a simulated universe."

But unless the premise in your first paragraph is true, and you don't know the odds that it is, your conclusion is false.

I have counter-hypothesis. So far, at smallest scale we could see and detect, there are no 0s and 1s to be found. In fact, quantum laws are probabilistic, not binary.

If chaos theory is an indication, and it looks like, as with statistics, chaotic systems apply to the whole universe at whatever scale, you should have symmetry of scale. That is, if you could at things small enough, you will find something like the universe that we see inside sub-sub-sub atomic particles. If you could look large enough, ultimately, the universe, or what contains it, would look like a subatomic particle like an lepton or quark.