Quote Originally Posted by J.D. View Post
Say one day, a Sims x is created where the game has become so sophisticated that the simulated people are indistinguishable from actual human beings. They wonder about the origin of their universe and how they came to be. There's no way they could actually prove they were segments of computer code running in a computer simulation. In their universe, they are real. Put the game on "Ultra Speed" and they won't notice. Generations could come and go in the blink of an eye, but they would all have lived actual lives in seconds of our time, outside the simulation. Say one day some clever sim invents his own computer game, one in which you can create simulations of human lives and let it run. The chain could go on and on. How could we even know if we were nothing but a link in the chain of universes? Also, who's the ultimate programmer?
I've thought about this... Like how do we really know that we aren't just sims ourselves? Cos if we are, why hasn't the person micro-managing my life figured out the cheat codes yet so I can have tons of money and a kick ass figure? Do I have one of those players that want to play the game 'true-to-life?' That sadistic bastard!!

Quote Originally Posted by J.D. View Post
Or if you prefer a more organic idea, layers of dreams/minds. The DC's in our dreams having dreams of their own, in which they find more DC's and so on.

/end bizzare philosophy
Is it possible we're DC's in someone elses dream? (playing on the shared dreaming theory a bit, here).