Only if you assume there's an inherent connection between the simulation and reality. I've written and run Conway's Life before, but because it was fun, not be

Only if you assume there's an inherent connection between the simulation and reality. I've written and run Conway's Life before, but because it was fun, not because it was an accurate simulation of reality. In a world that has virtually unlimited computational power, who's to say there wasn't some teenager who got bored on the weekend and said "hey, what if I ran Simulation.app for 10 billion years of simulated time, but with only 4 fundamental forces, and 3 dimensions of space"?