So, do those people in the casserole know they're in a simulation, or do they think that they're real?
Of course, they think they're real. To them, the rules of my software are just their laws of physics.
But, we think we're real. Couldn't our universe also be a simulation?
Absolutely not! No chance. The very idea is preposterous!
How can you be so sure?
Because it's computationally impossible! For example, every atom in the universe is affected whenever one little thing moves.
Like my ass? Oh yeah!
That's a perfect example, Bender, and some pretty decent twerking. My software can't possibly compute the gravitational changes between Bender's ass and every other particle, so I had to have the information travel outward gradually, at a fixed speed.
Like the speed of light in our universe?
Right! Oh, fuff. That's just a coincidence. I had to cut other corners, too. I mean, my simulation doesn't even keep track of exactly where everything is. [...] Another convenient example. My lazy software wouldn't even decide which cup the ball's in until someone actually looked at it. Until then, it's just sort of in both.
So your programming shortcut is like quantum mechanics in our world?
Exactly like that! Hm, interesting. I guess what I'm trying to say is our universe is probably also a simulation.
But that's the exact opposite of what you said one minute ago!
New evidence was presented and I changed my mind. I'm a scientist, not a...
Idiot?
...politician.