Simulation Theory: Is This Reality Merely a 'High-Dimensional Computation Result'?
1. The Computed Universe: “Digital Traces” Shown by Physics
The cutting-edge discoveries of modern physics suggest, at a level that cannot be denied, that this universe is designed like a “computer.” *Quantized Minimum Units : When matter is decomposed to the extreme, energy is not continuous but divided into minimum units called “Planck units.” This is eerily similar to digital resolution (pixels) or the minimum units of information (bits). *Reality Generation by Observation : As seen in the double-slit experiment, the property of quantum mechanics where the state is not determined until a conscious observation occurs (collapse of the wave function) looks like the same method as an optimization algorithm for saving computational resources in computer games—“rendering only the field of view the player is looking at.” *Precise Constants Binding the Universe : The “Fine-Tuning Problem of the Universe,” where physical constants like gravity and electromagnetic force are set so precisely for life to be born. Calling this a coincidence is like waiting for an iPhone to be completed by chance from the wreckage of a crashed airliner. A clear input from a “Designer” is felt there.
2. “Bugs” and “Update Records” of Reality: Daily Oddities
In the context of conspiracy theories and modern ghost stories, viewing this world as a simulation attempts to give a single solution to unexplained strange phenomena. *The Mandela Effect (Inconsistency of Collective Memory) : A phenomenon where very many people hold a “memory that is different from the fact, yet common.” It is whispered that this might be a “database synchronization error” that occurred when the base system of the simulation was updated or the timeline was altered. *Déjà Vu and Synchronization Errors : As depicted in the movie The Matrix, unnatural déjà vu or “repetition of the same event” is interpreted as a sign of a program loop or a computation error (glitch) moving in the background. Even behaviors violating physical laws or “Doppelgängers” are dismissed as rendering overlaps.
3. Analysis: The Return of Animism and God as the “Designer”
Simulation Theory is a “digital animism (belief in programming in all things)” in the modern era.
Just as humanity once saw the will of gods or spirits in all things, modern people see the regularity of “Code” in all things. If this world is a simulation, there must necessarily be a “Designer (Programmer)” with a “purpose.” However, the deepest terror is the despair of an unending hierarchy (Inception) where even that programmer is inside an even higher simulation.
Are we merely “massive experimental data” for someone, or are we “Bugs (Anomalies)” attempting to pierce the gaps in the code and win our own truth in this highly optimized fiction?
4. Professional Perspective: The Zero Marginal Cost Universe
If you were a god, would you prepare countless real atoms to make a single galaxy? Or would you skip the calculations until someone looks, and move a mathematically perfect model to “make it look like it”?
If one pushes rationality to the extreme, one notices that simulation is the “most efficient way to run the universe.” This “heavy” reality in which we suffer, love, and die may be merely one “loop” processed in a few microseconds from the perspective of a higher-dimensional being.