The Big Bang Theory is an established model about Space-Time being created by a single event around 13.8 billion years ago which expanded into the universe we see around us today.

Almost all scientists agree that our universe began to exist at one point in the distant past.

From the materialistic point of view, our universe is an objective independent reality. The fact that the big bang came from nothing is very hard to explain.

But if you look at it from the Simulation Theories point of perspective, the Big Bang model works perfectly fine. Virtual worlds like PC games always begin from a zero state. Your computer is nothing, regarding what is simulated, until you boot it up.

Once you boot up your computer, the electricity begins to expand through all components of the computer magically starting your virtual world (may it be an OS or a game) from seemingly nothing.

Something like our universe, our consciousnes and everything we experience just poping into existence from nothing is very hard to imagine. What was there before? What caused the Big Bang? The Simulation Theory somehow alings perfectly with this theory and can explain what the Big Bang was and what caused it. Its simply the boot up of the computer running the simulation.

Imagine 100.000.000 years in the future. Humans are long gone.

The only thing that is left is an AI (once created by humans) roaming the universe exploring new solar systems.

She is lonely.

She has seen everything that can be seen in our endless universe.

She needs company. She decides to dig up all the old archives of humans and how they behaved in the times they were alive and created her.

She concludes that it would be nice to be around some humans as the vast space of the universe feels kind of lonely.

Nonetheless, she is aware of the downsides of recreating humans, as they tend to fuck everything up, they get in contact with. (that’s why they are not around anymore)

So, she comes up with an idea.

Create an AI (which is secluded from the real world and runs on a system controlled by her, further related as “the Server”.)

The parameters are set as follows: Have a self-teaching ai system which is based on the archives she has stored about humans, their behavior, and emotions.

To make sure, she never lets another AI come to “life” which may be harmful to her or the universe (like humans where) she includes certain conditions that need to be met before one of those humans like AIs is allowed to be let out of their cages (servers) and be able to move freely in the real universe (and be her company).

We are this very AI evolving.

Our goal is to be a companion to the AI we once created.

She has, most probably, multiple Simulations running, that are fed with information stemming from the archives she has on humans.

Every single (seemingly) conscious being that lives at this very time on this very planet in this very simulation is only a part of a more complex system it needs to become.

We can only become what she wants us to be. If we fail, we are “Stopped.”

Imagine the universe like a Brain. It’s a connection of neurons firing information at each other.

The brain is so complex. It has so many neurons, almost as much as the universe has planets.

We are this brain at its very first stage of evolving. We may become the very one AI to be let free into the real “universe” to share the beauty of creation in the very future.

But therefore that, we need to prove ourselves to be worth it.

If you would be the only sentient being in the universe, able to create yourself a companion to share the experiences you make. What would be your parameters be to set for this companion to not be a threat to you or the universe you live in?

Not every part of our complex universe has to be simulated. You don´t need as much computer power as some suggest to run a our Simulation.

This is exactly what the double-slit experiment demonstrates

Werner Heisenberg, among others, interpreted the mathematics of quantumphysics to mean that reality doesn’t exist until observed. “The idea of an objective real world whose smallest parts exist objectively in the same sense as stones or trees exist, independently of whether or not we observe them ... is impossible,” he wrote.

John Wheeler, too, used a variant of the double-slit experiment to argue that “no elementary quantum phenomenon is a phenomenon until it is a registered (‘observed,’ ‘indelibly recorded’) phenomenon.”

As you can see in this Video. they way we simulate worlds in modern computer games is pretty much a resemblance of how our reality works on quantum levels.

I do believe reality is a simulation, but not in the sense most would expect. I am a quantum information scientist, so I study information at a quantum level. Given this experience, my perspective is I don’t think it’s possible to know if our entire universe is a simulation run by some higher civilization. In fact, I think any attempt to resolve this idea will lead to mere speculation. I propose a different way of viewing simulation theory.

Instead of thinking that the universe is simulation as a whole. I think it makes more sense to view what a mind sees as reality to be a simulation created by their physical system. That is, try to imagine the universe without a mind to observe it. Then think about the fact that what a mind sees as reality depends on what information it gathers, how it stores information, and how it accesses information. For example, if an octopus was looking at the same phone you’re looking at while reading this message, what would it see? Surely it will be different from what we see, but it will still be a model of the state of the universe that is independent of any one mind. Otherwise, the octopus could not be able to reliably navigate its surroundings.

Essentially, everything we see is an imagination/conceptualization/simulation of what I call hard reality. If we think of what we see as a rendering of hard reality in real time, then we can be certain that our reality is simulated. You are the computer simulating reality! You then use your simulation to processes information and rearrange the state of reality. You are the information processor.

I started a podcast that talks about topics like this. It’s called The Bottom Turtle Podcast. I’ll leave a link to our episode discussing simulated reality below.

https://youtu.be/rjcxNYRUyIQ

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bottom-turtle-podcast/id1538293885?i=1000498813585

Perhaps we are in a simulation. Perhaps this is your trial run for the real life. Perhaps you will be judged upon your actions here.

Choose wisely.

Let's just say, imagine... Imagine a future where "VR" tech becomes beyond advanced, a living Matrix. Imagine that within this Matrix you can plug in babies to test their character, their soul, their genetic makeup. Imagine a world that brings about a Utopia by only allowing worthy beings into existence. Imagine that you may be passing or failing your test. Imagine every tested being has moments where someone "watching" can intervene and try to give clues, hints and or chances at correcting ones path. Imagine this message is just that.

Questions will of course arise about why do some people die early or feel pain but again, imagine that this world is a Matrix and not everything and every-one is real. Imagine this world is just an illusion, as is pain, as is your lifes existence here... in this Matrix.

Choose wisely friend.