>Or everything is a simulation, again math kind of works. No direct evidence, but neat idea. But who’s hosting the sever that’s running the universe. Its progr

>Or everything is a simulation, again math kind of works. No direct evidence, but neat idea. But who’s hosting the sever that’s running the universe. Its programmers all the way up! But really, awhile ago I settled on the belief that its very possible we're in a natural simulation. Natural, as in, the same way that plants are simulations of L-Systems or in particular the same way my GPU once spat out cellular-automata-like behavior in a glitch. If we are in a simulation, we've got no prior on what the world "above" us might be like. Oftentimes I see the theory shot down with "Our universe is too big and complex, theres no way any computer could be big enough to simulate it!" which is valid if assuming scale and physics anything like ours. But that's not a reasonable assumption here. It could be that the computational power of a cheap smartphone in the above world is similar to what a supercomputer the size of Jupiter or even Sun or any scale really for all we know. But that still assumes a programmer. If computing is done a lot in the above world at that sort of scale, our universe could be the result of a hardware glitch. That specific scenario may be quite unlikely, its just the extension of the GPU creating cellular automata by chance that I mentioned earlier. There's many other ways for algorithms of simulation to naturally emerge from reality just existing and things within it creating new sub-systems, which from within such a system, appear to be "something from nothing". So in a sense, it seems most likely that whatever the case is we are likely not one the "first layer" of reality, we are "simulated" within sub-layers. So then the interesting question is not how did this particular something come from nothing, but how can anything come from nothing, in the very first place, ever, at all? Once something exists, while scientifically we'd want an answer for how to get from there to here, its just a matter of what exact process that is.