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I think you meant incidental, rather than unintended

• jonnathanson 14y ago
  Or emergent. Think of the Deist philosophy of the 18th century: that of God as a "clockmaker," who wound up the universe and then left it to tick. Whatever outcomes emerged were not necessarily the results of his actions or intentions; they were the effects of his original cause. It was a quirky and relatively short-lived philosophy, especially in the Western cannon. But it's eerily applicable here. If this is all a computer simulation, it's possible the creator(s) of the simulation programmed only the fundamental physics and set up the Big Bang, allowing everything else to unfold and develop as it has. In effect, this wouldn't be very different (to us) from a non-simultated reality. Hell, it's possible that we're in a simulation that people in the "real" universe set up as a scientific study, to model their own universe's birth and evolution.