[LinuxBender]

In theory if we were in a simulation I might expect there to be instructions and cheat codes. Maybe even Easter Eggs. Astrology could be instructions. Sorcery could be cheat codes. Now you just need to map them out in a way anyone can use them, thus enabling scientific method assuming the simulation does not circumvent a validation process if and when it recognizes it is being tested or monitored. i.e. the VW test.

There is one theory according to Douglas Adams that if one figures this out the universe will reset and recreate itself in a much more complex manor. There are other theories that this has already occurred.

[krapp]

The problem with simulation theory, to me, is that everyone seems to believe it implies our universe is literal software running on a literal computer as we understand it, because that's what was portrayed in the Matrix. No one ever seems to think outside of that box. If the universe is simulated, then the nature of the simulation is going to be something beyond our comprehension, some higher-dimensional mind-shattering Lovecraftian construct which emits not a simulation in code which somehow interprets itself as reality, but actual physical reality. What it's not going to be is just a big Unity game where you can noclip out of the map or something.