Hey, thanks for taking the time to read my stuff.

I don't take sides on this issue. This whole post was simply my thoughts on "if" we are living in a simulation.

According to neuroscience, every individual person is living in a simulation in their own brain. This means that none of our conscious experience is of the external world as it really is. We only have our individual interpretations, coming into our brains from our sense organs. So this idea of a simulation I basically agree with.

But the idea that most proponents push is that we are being simulated by some advanced beings. I can't say it's not true, but it seems just as likely to me that we aren't. If life comes into being in the universe so many times that it's inevitable that there are advanced civilizations doing advanced simulations, then there should also be countless civilizations that haven't reached that stage. What actual evidence do we have about the likelihood of either?

And then there's the problem of the existence of conscious experience. I mean, the physical stuff could be a simulation, and according to quantum physics the physical world is computed by quantum particles themselves. But any particle we observe requires consciousness to observe it, so it seems to me that conscious experience can't be simulated. It would have to exist prior to any simulation.