what do physicists mean when they say we potentially live in a simulation?

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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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They mean despite the fact that we are all “experiencing” reality there’s no way to prove without a doubt that our reality is real. we could be a video game for some kid and we wouldn’t even notice when it got turned off and on or for how long, or if he reverted a save point we wouldn’t even notice that time rewound because our memory starts from that moment again.
FURTHERMORE, there’s no way to prove that you aren’t the only conscious person in the whole universe and everyone else are just a program.
The only thing you can do is keep living as if it’s all real, BECAUSE that’s all you have or ever will know.

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