I’ll tell you, I’m no expert. But I keep thinking about the time when I was young, and I was playing around with computers, and I was given a file. It was just one file. Sometimes it was a .exe file, sometimes a .com file, sometimes a .zip file, whatever, and you were told to run it. When we ran it, the file exploded into many, many other files, opened up, and other directories came out, and many other things came out. They started expanding more and more, and something that was at that time, let’s say, 10 megabytes bloomed out to be something like, I don’t know, 200 megabytes, and then this entire program could be started, et cetera.
So I think about our universe expanding constantly, and we ask ourselves, are we in a civilization? Are we in a simulation? Is our civilization a simulation? We are expanding, and we are doing this thing. Where did we come from? What is the Big Bang? What if the Big Bang was a computer simulation? The part where you insert a file into a computer or a diskette into a computer or whatever it is, and you hit enter, and boom, it starts. It starts making these planets and expanding and gases and hot gases and randomness, et cetera, and the special formulas in that expansion that will then create galaxies and stars and nebulas and star systems and solar systems and black holes and so many things.
Then there are other people who get involved, and they are then allowed to run their simulations after a certain amount of time. It’s just like maybe Second Life has started. There are all these islands, and then you suddenly come claim, and then you start building. So everyone gets a solar system to build. There are some basic things. Someone says, okay, I’ll take Earth, and I’ll start building this, and they are building things, and suddenly we are civilizations. It’s an interesting idea, to say the least.
There was this part in Star Trek: The Next Generation where Moriarty was in the holodeck, and he learns how to escape. Captain Jean-Luc Picard was playing Sherlock Holmes, and he comes across Moriarty, and Moriarty learns about this holodeck, and he learns to escape from the holodeck onto the main thing. Then Captain Jean-Luc Picard basically brings him back into the holodeck and makes him escape, except this time he thinks he’s escaping, but actually what they’re doing is they’re taking the holodeck simulation and putting it into a small computer where an entire world is living. Moriarty is in that simulation thinking he’s in the free world, and he’s escaped the holodeck, and he’s escaped the Starship Enterprise, and so forth. But actually, what he’s doing is still living in a simulation unbeknownst to him.
The same thing happened with this Mission Impossible, the last one, where the entity was taken out and put into a flash drive, a living flash drive that has a simulation over there, and it’s living over there and so forth. It thinks it’s in the real world, but actually, it’s in a simulation. So what stops us from being that? What if we really are a simulation? What if we are like on a computer, you play Civilization or Second Life or something else, and that’s exactly what we are doing, and that’s exactly what we are playing. We are playing, and then someone has the ability to introduce currency and history and time and water and nuclear weapons and alien technology. That’s not alien technology. It simply is more updates and mods being brought into the simulation, into the civilization.
That’s just what I wanted to share. I thought that was interesting.