i found this one quite stunning :
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4.2 Simulation in Actual Reality.
We exist merely or marginally in someone’s or some-thing’s simulation, in an artificial world that actually exists in terms of having physical particles and forces and galaxies and stars, but that entirety is not what it seems because that entirety is derivative not original. Andre Linde analyzes “baby universe formation” and then asks, “Does this mean that our universe was created not by a divine design but by a physicist hacker?”
Paul Davies speaks of “fake universes,” and of those beings who created them as “false gods;” and he ponders that if multiple universes really exist, the great majority of them may be fakes because some of them (there are so many) would have spawned, at some time or another, unthinkably superior beings who would have had the capacity to create these fake universes and once they could have done so they would have done so, creating immensely many fake universes and thereby swamping the real ones.
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