[BLKNSLVR]

The extension of 'the map is not the terrain' is 'the simulation is not the universe'.

I'm not sure if that's an exact example of what you're saying, but, for me, if any conclusion is that we're living in a simulation, then it's simulations all the way down.

Or, we're living in a simulation because we understand and process the universe and our experiences through the filter of our brains, and our brains are, to some degree, an abstraction engine. Our physical bodies exist in the terrain, but the entirety of our conscious lives is lived through the map.

[stephc_int13]

No, we are not living in a simulation.

And what I am saying is that the simulation hypothesis is a logical conclusion given our abstract way of representing numbers and infinity.

Basic things like real numbers are also an abstract model.