Why do you assume someone thought of the simulated universe? As I said, it could be an accident, a side-effect of something else. Just as people inadvertently i

Why do you assume someone thought of the simulated universe? As I said, it could be an accident, a side-effect of something else. Just as people inadvertently invent Turing machines when designing languages, our universe could be the side-effect of something built for an entirely different purpose.