Our universe is most likely a computer simulation

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124. But we wouldn't be aware of the 0s and 1s would we?

I don't think a simulation this complex would be run on a binary computer, but even if it was, I doubt that we'd have access to the actual 0s and 1s. Everything we sense, either with our natural senses or with our technological instrumentation, would be simulated information fed to simulated senses or instruments. We wouldn't be able to detect the actual bits any more than we'd be able to detect the silicon and wires that store and move those bits. We'd only have access to the simulated information. That's the only thing that would have any reality to us.

The probabilistic nature of the universe would be the result of the algorithms used in the simulation. Presumably it's probabilistic because a purely deterministic algorithm would be boring; consistently giving the exact same outcome for any given start state.