Our universe is most likely a computer simulation

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92. I wouldn't assume that we are the focus

Because the universe is not reductionist, and is full of quantum uncertainty, I doubt we could be a simulation run anywhere in a universe just like ours. So the meta-universe would probably have different natural laws such that our universe is simplified, from their perspective.

As for the 1s and 0s... I doubt a universe simulation would be literally binary. Just making a general point. A perfect simulation would have to put every atom through a range of quantum possibilities probabilistically. A big job.

But in a universe where six dimensions are available for chemical interactions who knows what is or is not a lot of computing?

As far as the success of a simulation, I do not assume that the programmer of a simulation we lived in would have any interest in us, or even in life. Any sufficiently good simulation of a universe with our physical laws is going to produce a lot of life, but if life is the focus then why simulate a whole universe?

Earth could be simulated a lot more easily. Just create Earth with the sun and moon as they are, and the right elements everywhere, and let it go from there.

Since our simulation (if we were in a simulation) seems to have a vast astrophysical history from the big bang on it seems likelier, to me, to be a physics experiment, rather than a biology experiment.