Is The Universe A Simulation?

in 1970 a British mathematician named John Conway created a project known as the game of life even though it's a game it isn't one that you necessarily play the game of life is a zero player game which doesn't make much sense when you hear it the way it works is you put in a

set of initial conditions and then observe that's it once you put the initial conditions in the game runs itself other than the small set of rules of the simulation follows it runs on almost nothing some patterns only run for a few generations before they die out while others seemingly go on forever and this got me thinking if a simulation

as small as this with the very little variables can result in something huge what if we scale this up to say the size of a universe a simulation that's more than just dots on a screen but a simulation with galaxies planets and life more importantly if that is possible how do we know that we aren't

living in one of those simulations right there [Applause] [Music] [Applause]

at first the argument for our universe being a simulation just sounds like complete nonsense but when you actually take a look into it it seems to become more and more plausible how do you observe things well you see them or smell them or observe them with any of your senses this is your subjective reality a reality based

on the subject you you are alone in your own head everything that you observe or interact with ences journey with neurons firing in your brain in a certain way to create your view for the world what this being said can you prove that there is an objective reality that is a reality that exists independently of our