10 Incredible Reasons We're Living in a Computer Simulation

From philosophical arguments to quantum
mechanics, we count 10 reasons we may be living in a computer simulation.
10  Logic  The simulation argument has three major
points to it, either the amount of people out there capable or willing to create universe
simulations is close to zero or the amount of realities that exist that arent simulations
is close to zero.  This does of course assume that it is
possible to have a gigantic simulation of an entire universe, but then again, maybe
were just in a simulation of our galaxy, or even our solar system.
But assuming that it is possible to simulate a universe, until we find a way to prove otherwise
logic dictates that were probably in a simulation.
9  Conways Game of Life  It seems a bit absurd at first, that a
series of binary, or perhaps trinary numbers, could emulate an entire universe, but its
actually really quite possible, a good example of this is Conways game of life.
This is a very simple mathematical game that works on a grid and it has a small set
of rules dictating whether each section in the grid should create or delete a square
to populate it.  Despite having very simple rules its
possible to create a universal Turing machine, AKA a machine capable of computing anything,
inside the game of life, not only that but people have created a game of life, within
the game of life. 8  Planck Length
But then this requires our universe to have a pixel size, a smallest possible unit
that nothing can shrink bellow and we do actually have that in our universe, the Planck length.
This is an integral part of quantum mechanics that basically says that anything smaller
than the Planck length is meaningless and may as well not exist thanks to how uncertain
its position is.

7  Everything is Information
The speed of light is the speed limit of the universe, but its not a simple as
nothing can move faster than the speed of light, because some things do, its just
that the speed of light is the fastest anything that carries information can move.
Of course its important to remember that everything that makes you, you is made
up of information carrying particles.  So the laws of our universe arent focused
on actuality, theyre focused on the proliferation of information, the same way a computers
limitations work. 6  We have Already Simulated Chunks of
the Universe  But even if our universe is information
focused, simulating an entire universe would require a massive computer and a brain well
beyond our own right?  Well weve actually already simulated
a 350 million light-years chunk of our universe, admittedly its not complex or precise enough
to have anything we could call life, but the large scale stuff is all there and its
good enough to help physicists test realitys quirks.
5  Computing Power  Next comes computational power, which
seems like the biggest issue of them all, but in reality its probably the smallest
factor in the whole theory since ever since 1975 weve doubled our computing power every
two years.  While this may slow down thanks to the
fact that the smaller a transistor gets the harder it is to be certain where it is, were
still a society that pours an insane amount of time and resources into making better computers.
4 - Programming  But then its gotta be really hard to
program an entire universe, surely that makes the argument fall down.
Of course this isnt necessarily an issue either, since we can just program programs
to program the programs for us, which believe it or not is something we already do for many
areas of IT.

Not only that but we could brute force
the whole issue by starting with super simple rules and beginning positions, like the game
of life, and see which one works the best. 3 - Power
Its hard to deny that the power required to make such a machine run is gigantic, even
if you take into account increases in power efficiency.
But there are ways around that too, theres a theoretically possible megastructure called
the Dyson sphere that can capture a large portion of the suns energy.
Such a structure would require a gigantic amount of material, but that can always be
stripped from planets like Jupiter and Saturn. 2  But Dont We Have Free Will?,
Then you might wonder if a machine could emulate free will, like we seem to have, which
is dubious, but then so is our so called free will.
Since if you ever remove a persons ability to retain new memories a weird effect
occurs.  They will repeat themselves constantly,
if you give them the same parameters and the same question, they will almost always repeat
themselves word for word for hours on end.

So whether we have free will or not aside,
this shows that were not exactly unpredictable or un-programmable.
1  Uncertainty  What is seemingly un-programmable, however,
is the uncertainty that comes with quantum physics, where an object isnt in any one
position, it just has a possibility of being in a series of locations until it gets observed.
So it really does seem to be truly random, but then computers have little issue creating
something random in the first place, using algorithms to simulate true randomness, hell
we can even do this by observing quantum mechanics.  Not only that but if a scientist recorded
a large series of quantum events and then put that into the random number generator
it would be almost indistinguishable from actual randomness..