csanyk

How DO they engineer those humongous Life patterns?

What do you think the limits are for what studying Life can teach us about our own universe?

Every simulation runs within something. Unless infinite regression is possible, there has to be a "bottom" or fundamental reality that all simulations run within. (Or I suppose if there could be disjointed realities, you can have multiple "bottom" universes running parallel or adjacent to each other, and not every one need contain a simulation of anything within it...)

I figure if this universe we call ours is a simulation, the biggest question we can answer is how could we know that, and what, if anything then may be knowable about the outside reality our simulation is running in.

It could, I suppose, but then what advantage would there be in understanding or thinking about the universe in this way?