>>11997190You don't really understand simulation theory do you? We're not talking about a computer game, or a fake Matrix, outside of which is something more real, and where you're being exploited.
The simulation theory is really simple: If there should be a single reality in which making complex simulations is possible, then in just one such reality there could, throughout the life-bearing age of that universe be countless billions of races each capable of creating billions and billions of simulations. If those simulations are sophisticated enough that they could spawn a universe like ours, then inside each of those simulations, could be billions more simulations, even if they they had a lower resolution. The point is that we can assume that per every "real" reality, there are a near infinite number of simulated realities.
Not like Sims games or some trash like that. Simulations of a big bang, of the energetic particles created, the fundamental forces, the simplest, most numerous little particles and their interactions in the universe, simulated with but slight variations in their properties. They could just be using these simulations to study the formation of galaxies on an accurate level. But within that simulation, they would have to have the same fundamental forces we do. Time, space, the standard model. All the necesary building blocks to eventually create us, life. They wouldn't even know we exist. The simulation might take hours in their reality, or seconds, or decades. Who knows? But because the time within the simulation is part of the simulation, those within it would perceive their entire universe's birth, expansion and death as if it took billions and billions of years. Because it does.
So you see. It's not "fake". It's an entire reality of its own. From our point of view, it makes no difference whether this is a simulation or a true reality (as mathematically unlikely as it is). For us, it's just as real regardless.
