Here is my collection of thoughts and opinions on the topic. First: The fascination for simulation hypothesis is another extension of us humans wanting to be s

Here is my collection of thoughts and opinions on the topic. First: The fascination for simulation hypothesis is another extension of us humans wanting to be something special and also being very worried that we might not be so special after all. This is the constant inner battle of our minds between the our inferiority complex and the mediocrity principle. Like as if living a simulated but enjoyable life is not good enough. But, that is not to say that it is not at least an interesting thought experiment everybody should try once. It can even help us understand our own insignificance. (Excuse me, my nihilist got out) Second: I do think there is no such a thing as simulation or even an inner and an outer forming a hierarchy. Imagine two astronomers looking into a telescope. One says to the other: "Wow, look I created this galaxy in there. And if I change the parameters just so slightly by adjusting this here, I get a totally different one which still has some similarities to the last one." Now, replace the telescope by a computer screen and the astronomers by two people programming a video game. What they fail to realize is that they do not "create" these galaxies or simulated universes. No, they are just observing them. And by interacting with the computer you don't change the simulation but instead switch to observing a different version. But, just like the natural numbers all of this just exists. It does not come into existence (is not created), neither does it cease to exist or change. It also needs no space or memory to be stored on and no mass to be conserved. 1+1=2 is true with and without us. It is completely independent. Concepts like time, space and mass are specific to some universes (like ours) and are not universal (pun intended). Third: Yes, multiverse theory does not solve everything, but it solves the "trivial" questions like: - Are we the result of an intelligent design, god, alien, simulation? Question which are just offsetting the problem by one. - Are we just a computer simulation and thus not "real"? All universes are equally real, there is no hierarchy: Cognito ergo sum. - Can we break out? Everything you find would just be another physical law and property of our universe. Or you get really lucky and are actually boltzmann-brained, allowing you to visit another universe while keeping your memories of the last one. At least that is what it would seem like to you. Yet, multiverse theory lets us move on to the harder questions like: Why does anything exist at all? Wouldn't it be much simpler for just nothing to exist? What is qualia and how does it "emerge"? P.S: Let them do their experiments, maybe they accidentally find something useful anyways.