And why would that be &quot;more elegant&quot;?<p>If, after merely a few centuries of industrial revolution, we are nearing to be able to make a good enough physics simulation, and thus it&#x27;s conceivable that in th future (100-1000 years) we could create a very fine simulation of a world (with simulated humans in it too, a la Sims).<p>Then the same (that they themselves will be eventually able to create a simulation) can be said for the inhabitants of the simulated world we&#x27;ve created.<p>This means that in the end, there might be thousands or millions of such simulations inside a prior simulation.<p>This begs the question: why would then our world not be a simulation itself? Certainly if there are 1000&#x27;s of simulations, it&#x27;s more probable that we&#x27;re somewhere in the middle than on the top of the stack.<p>Now consider the simulation above us: they create our universe as a simulation.<p>It would then make sense that:<p>1) the simulation would be in final analysis discreet.
2) it would only spare computation cycles when it was worth it.<p>So, (1) would involve something like Planks length (and related constants).<p>And (2) would make it so that &quot;reality&quot; (active simulation) exists only when one of us (humans&#x2F;consciousness) look at it.