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RE: Parents To The Gods - Creating A Digital Species
What if: some other species, maybe AI, from another universe, has created our universe (for example by experimenting with black holes or something like that still unknown to us)? O.o
I wrote about this in the past; my conclusion was that if we ever discover that there is no such thing as an NP problem (P=NP) this will in my mind, increase the chance of us living in a simulation.
However if there are genuinely NP problems (problems that take more than the age of the universe to solve), then we can no way be living in a sim, because a computer that advanced, wouldn't be able to create problems it couldn't itself solve.
A bit of a mindbender but there you go! :-)
Your thoughtful theory made me think hard, but I must challenge it for two reasons: