Some scientists have even claimed that our universe is very likely a computer simulation. I doubt that, because a simulation running in a computer is controlled by some external intelligence that can shut down the simulation, and if our universe is a simulation it seems likely to me that the external universe itself is a simulation too. Simulation within simulation running for billions of years without any of the zillions possible simulations ever being shut down? I don't think so.norman wrote: The last two posts have basically assumed that there is no Matrix in reality, as it were. I tend to make that assumption myself too. But, We cannot completely rule out the notion that this really is a Matrix!
I believe that our universe is post-singularity technology, not a simulation. By 'post-singularity' I mean subatomic technology with immense capabilities, similar too what is described in the Transcension Hypothesis:
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I disagree with the transcension hypothesis. I think our Big Bang is a white whole of a black hole in a parent universe, and that dark matter is subatomic technology from our parent universe. And if our universe is made of post-singularity technology, the our parent universe is very likely also made of such technology from a grandparent universe and so on. But there is a source of this black holes within black holes multiverse tree which is the root universe. The source of our creation is then this root universe which is an organic universe where life first evolved through natural evolution leading to the first technological singularity(ies). So our source of creation is organic, not artificial.