If this is a simulation, it could have been “created” as a set of physical rules (which we perceive as physics). Everything that happens within it could have ju

If this is a simulation, it could have been “created” as a set of physical rules (which we perceive as physics). Everything that happens within it could have just evolved naturally from those rules. For example, maybe the Big Bang was the initialization of the simulation. Life wasn’t explicitly programmed into it, but it just happened after running the simulation for billions of years. Now that life exists, along with the pleasures and suffering that go along with it, this higher intelligence could step in and change it, but that would certainly corrupt the natural progression of the simulation.