Everytime this work of Wolfram's comes up, I think the same thing: what this is more than anything else, is a tacit argument that the universe we inhabit and ar

Everytime this work of Wolfram's comes up, I think the same thing: what this is more than anything else, is a tacit argument that the universe we inhabit and are structures/processes within, is computed in a strong sense. I.e., that we are living in a computational "simulation," the substrate of which is not currently accessible. That he doesn't come out and lead with this, I find quite peculiar. I've asked him about this in person and not gotten a less cagey response. I assume that is because he does not want his theoretic hypotheticals to be binned under "simulation theory" and his overall world view so categorized. But I don't see another reason to pursue this line of conjecture the way he does. And as I suspect that that premise is actually true, it's all good IMO. Unrelated directly, but certainly adjacent, is that at the intersection of simulation-theories and AI, is the premise that a computed person (i.e, an AI) is uniquely situated to "jail break" our own reality, to exist in the framing one. (And you know, maybe it's turtles all the way down a la Flatland, so...) As Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett foregrounded, a simulated hurricane doesn't get you wet, but a simulated poem is a poem in every frame. So too travel entities defined well by computation. A good reason, if we needed one, perhaps, to get on with the business of elevating ourselves into a purely computational embodiment, I think. I'd like to pop up a level and take a look.