What are the possibilities that we are living in a simulation?
I’m certain that we are living in a simulation.
I have answered a similar question, so this is dejavu for me but I’ll add more here.
In so doing, I hope to elucidate further that which has already been very well expounded by learned people from the past.
In the scheme of existence, only waves exist. We can come to this conclusion by comparing the structure of the universe at every level from atoms to galaxies. At every level, we find the exact same architectural blueprint being expressed.
More about that here: ‘Golden Ratio’ and ‘Fibonacci Numbers’: The Ultimate Toolkit for Defining the Geometry of Universe
I will emphasize that reality is lmathematical (geometrical) in character while appearing to be physical. Appearances can and do deceive. What the physical senses perceive are appearances, which is a mirage which we call the cosmos, whereas the reality is vastly different from the that which we perceive. That which is fleeting, decays and dies do not possess the character of reality, which is permanent - or immutable - in character. Geometry expresses immutability whereas physicality expresses temporariness.
Within our geometrcal universe, there exist the element of reflexivity, which is expressed as patterns that human beings find pleasing and soothing. The presence of beautiful patterns in the natural realm is reflected within the human being as a yearning, a desire for closeness and intimacy. At the core of the design of the universe is conjugacy and complementariness, that duality is a reflection of unity as characterized by its torus-hyperboloid geometry at every level. In conjugacy there is unity and beauty.
The upshot is that the universe is intelligible when we it is viewed from the point of view of esthetics. Beauty and intelligence are conjugate characteristics of each other. Beauty appeals to the intelligence in the same way that patterns lend themselves to geometrical analysis.
Here’s the crux of the matter: To what extent - both ways are possible, even necessary - can the human being use the love of beauty instead of discernment between truth and error to come to the conclusion that the universe is a tapestry of beautiful geometric expressions, and not a physical phenomenon?
It is true that the human will addresses beauty while human intelligence addresses discernment between truth and error. To put it in another way, beauty spurs one to immediate action while discernment analyzes differences in the characteristics of truth as opposed to error.
Allow me to titillate your mind: Spiralling Primes - Spiralling Prime - and we thought prime numbers - exhibit randomness or do prime numbers "appears to exhibit a strongly nonrandom appearance"? My suggestion is that prime numbers are the ultimate expression of beauty as expressed in a rigorous mathematical manner.
Spiralling prime number patterns are archetypes of the spiral patterns found strewn all over outer space as well as natural phenomena on earth.