Sunday Sermon
Scientists: The Universe Is Not A Simulation
(But isn’t that exactly what they’d say if the universe WAS a simulation?)
In 2012 it was announced by physicists that they could find out whether the universe was a simulation by studying the cosmic rays.
Well, that kind of fizzled out. I guess it was too hard to study those rays, so we really still don’t have proof of this horrifying thesis that we are all stuck in a hideous cosmic video game of some sort. Personally, I hope we’re not stuck in a simulation. Of course, it’s probably better than being stuck in Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse, which at that point I guess would be a simulation inside a simulation.
Other scientists have suggested that consciousness itself is proof of the simulation — that consciousness is a product that is produced by us, but not for us. Our consciousness is the “product” that the voyeurs watching this simulation view for their entertainment or whatever.
