Excert from the book Universe.exe
“It could very well be that the story of Genesis is a literal description of the simulation being turned on, thus vindicating the Biblical creationist view.
My claim is essentially that simulation theory may make more sense than classical evolution. Perhaps a radical assertion, but allow me to explain. Whatever the real explanation for human existence is, it is certainly a miracle of some sort. Whether a single day’s work of a divine creator, or billions of years of statistical mechanics and thermodynamics at play, the fact that creatures with sentient thought who can experience emotion, analyze the world around them, and read and write books came into existence is nothing short of amazing.
Let’s compare the simulation premise to evolution more closely. As stated before, a simulation doesn’t preclude evolution, but it doesn’t require it either. Regardless of one’s stance on evolution, any rational person must surely admit that the process of basic elements; inert matter, somehow transforming into consciousness is incredible in every sense of the word. Evolution is an obscenely delicate process where insurmountable barriers are crossed at every step of the way.
Science tells us that the odds of a planet like Earth forming and developing life, given all the perils of a harsh and sterile galaxy, are astronomically small. And yet, here we are.
The scientific explanation given for how this happened does make sense when considering the tangible evidence that we do have, but it still requires a sort of leap of faith that vast lengths of time and the chaos of random particle interactions are able to join forces to construct living entities. The true process of evolution must be absurdly complex, and while we think we understand the basic concepts, we really have no idea how extremely sophisticated structures like DNA could have formed on their own. At some point, we as scientists should ask ourselves if perhaps there is a simpler explanation. Enter simulation theory.
Under simulation theory, we have a version of creationism that is more scientific in its essence. If the universe was only really “created” 10,000 years ago, we can explain why such complicated life exists in the seemingly dead void of space without relying on the intricate assumptions of evolution. Many scientists already embrace the concept of simulation theory, and while we don’t know for sure that it is true, it is not unreasonable to claim that there is at least a 50% chance that it is; a probability that is drastically higher than the odds that Earth would have just the right conditions to support evolution from molecules to man. So, the scientists can have an origin story without the holes and unanswerable questions of evolution, while the Biblical creationists can still point to Genesis as the real story of the simulation coming online.
But what about all of those fossils and rock layers that suggest millions and millions of years of history have passed? Naturally, it could just be another part of the simulation, but why? Why give us such a rich and detailed fake history? There are a number of possibilities here, although each one would be just a guess. If humans like ourselves created the simulation, perhaps a higher level universe did indeed have some cleaner more understandable form of evolution, and the details are just lost in translation.
Picture an AI-generated movie of today (Today being sometime in the year 2024. If you’re reading this in the future, your AI movies are probably flawless masterpieces). While the AI gets most of the details right, there are always little pieces that don’t make sense or don’t logically line up. A person may have extra limbs, or the colors of the environment might be unnatural. This is because the computer generation has to extrapolate without a perfect reference, and inevitably gets some things wrong. If some simulation program generated the entire Earth, the program might have just created a load of filler to make up the planet’s crust. This gives us random skeletons and fossils that are similar, yet distinctly different from the life we see today, as well as the inexplicable gaps in bands of rock and sediment.
The point I’m making here isn’t just limited to the origin of the human species. In science, the beginning of the universe in its entirety is even less well understood than evolution. We have the theory of a Big Bang, but even that relies on a fundamentally impossible premise of physical measurements of infinity transitioning to finite values. If we are in a simulation, it could explain why our universe will never have an origination theory that can be scientifically or mathematically complete. Accepting that we are in a simulation still doesn’t answer the ultimate question of the origin of the base reality universe, but we can speculate that perhaps whichever universe spawned all of the simulations has a simpler set of laws where scientific models don’t inherently break down when approaching the origin point.
Overall, the origin issue isn’t some smoking gun proving that we live in a simulation, but it shows us that simulation theory provides a clean and logically complete answer to a difficult, contentious question.”
If you want to see a very good and thought-provoking movie that shows how a simulation could work, I highly recommend The Thirteenth Floor. You can watch it with english subtitles for free here.
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