To me, simulation and god go in similar directions in considering what's bigger and around us. But for simulation, it's in the sense of physics: in the sense of digging always deeper in understanding what we are truly made of. There is no given to experimental proof in physics. They depend on our ingenuity, and also on our technical and financial capabilities - can we manage the high energies? the costs? - Can we even think of what to measure and how to measure it?
There is no a priori impossibility in experimental "simulation physics". Same as the rest of physics. It's no harder or easier to think of practical applications as the rest of high energy physics - whether small or large scale (much of which seemed initially remote - but finds applications as the dust settles and engineering progresses.) And "high energy" is the wrong word. Just "physics".
I feel there is also no a priori impossibility in applications of better understanding what we are mentally.
The problem with religion in general, no matter how many gods it demands, is that it's grounded in ungrounded precepts. And it's actively managed to work around proof. A simulation substrate is not likely to be changed by humans just because other humans are studying it.
There is no a priori impossibility in experimental "simulation physics". Same as the rest of physics. It's no harder or easier to think of practical applications as the rest of high energy physics - whether small or large scale (much of which seemed initially remote - but finds applications as the dust settles and engineering progresses.) And "high energy" is the wrong word. Just "physics".
I feel there is also no a priori impossibility in applications of better understanding what we are mentally.
The problem with religion in general, no matter how many gods it demands, is that it's grounded in ungrounded precepts. And it's actively managed to work around proof. A simulation substrate is not likely to be changed by humans just because other humans are studying it.