If we are in a simulation, and this is no new hypothesis, that doesn't mean our creator is some infallible god who loves us. I am as much a god when I play The Sims, if this is the case. And I am hardly infallible.
Ya, this idea has been around for awhile in some form or another. I think that folks tend to mistake irreducible complexity for engineering, whether that is your average Joe thinking about nature or a physicist getting into theoretical tachyons.
If you have time, this video is pretty interesting (if not confusing) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsbZT9bJ1s4
People can't deal with the idea that the irreducible and organized complexity of our universe has no cause, as everything we can observe is governed by cause-effect relationships.
But if there are infinite regression of causes, eh. Same as sitting at the number 3 on the number line and asking what the first integer is. You go back and you get to zero. But there is -1...-2...-3...ad infinitum. There doesn't have to be a first cause in this case. We want there to be one, but that doesn't mean there has to be one.
And to me, that is the beauty of science. You go where the evidence leads you. I will say I have not read his work, so I am not willing to say this is a big simulation. I frankly think it will be as impossible to show as there is to show God exists. And mostly is a waste of time. But I could be proven wrong in the future! Science!
Why? Anything you can think of has no true start, but is a culmination of previous conditions. Me typing this post has no true start. I had to load the page first. Before that I had to start up Chrome. Before that I had to log into my PC, walk into my office, park my truck, drive to work, get in the truck, etc, etc. So why must the Universe and Everything in it have a start?
Not true. It all started somewhere. This silliness that there isn't a true start is philosophy run amok.
Because nothing has a start, right? Condition to begin is a way to make the problem science can't answer just go away.
Then what started that condition that started the universe? Something, somewhere, has to infinitely regress. It is a perfectly good answer.
I don't know. Seems this guy was arguing God. Seems a lot of people do. A lot of people avoiding the greater being idea like "no real starts" type of analysis.
