I get what a simulation is, at least in the very literal sense. What I’m experiencing feels like reality, it would have to, it’s all any of us have ever known. But what would it mean for us if we truly lived in a simulation? Can it just be turned off and we cease to exist? If we found out we did live in one, how could it change our reality? How do we even hypothesize such a thing? I have zero background in physics just so we’re at an understanding of my physics understanding.
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Every few years, some new theory comes along in physics and non-physicists who don’t understand it spin it up into some all-encompassing philosophy, if not quasi-religion. It’s totally ridiculous.
As far as I know, there is no particular reason to think that “we’re living in a simulation” from a physics standpoint. Could we all be brains in a tank? Sure, it seems as likely to me as the idea that Smurfs created the universe.
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