Suppose you spent your whole life as a character in the computer game The Sims.
You would have no idea that the world around you wasn’t real and was really just a computer game. But suppose one day one of your fellow Sims, a scientist, while trying to discover the physics of your world, stumbled upon elements of the source code of the very game you were in.
Here you are living a normal life, and then you find much to your astonishment that you are in fact living in a video game inside a computer. How would you react? Would you freak out? Surely this couldn’t happen in the real world right? Such a notion would be impossible and ridiculous.
But wait! There are many millions of Sims games going on, and only one real world.
Meaning there are many more Sims than people living in the real world. Does this sound impossible anymore? In fact this being the case, it would be more probable that you are living in a video game right now than living in the real world! Am I messing with your head yet? Surely this is impossible. Continue reading



