[nobrains]

I had the opposite thought. Opposite to evolution...

What if we are a CREATED (i.e. instant created, not evolved) set of humans, and evolution and other backstories have been added so that the story of our history is more believable?

Could it be that humanity represents a de novo (Latin for "anew") creation, bypassing the evolutionary process? Perhaps our perception of a gradual ascent from primitive origins is a carefully constructed narrative designed to enhance the credibility of our existence within a larger framework.

What if we are like the Minecraft people in this simulation?

[thrway01234]

I feel that is too complicated. The most simplest explanation is usually the right one. I think we live on an earth with actual history. Note that this does not necessarily mean that we are not living in a simulation, as history itself can be simulated.

If we are indeed in a simulation, I feel there are too many details to be "designed" by a being. There are too many facts that are connected and unless they fix the "bugs" as they appear and reboot the simulation constantly, I don't think it is designed. Otherwise we would have noticed the glitches by now.

If we are in a simulation, it has probably been generated by a computer following a set of rules. Maybe it ran a simplified version to evolve millions of possible earths, and then we are living in the version they selected for the final simulation? In that case all the facts would align and it could potentially be harder to noticed the glitches.

I don't think we are living in a simulation because bugs are hard to avoid, even with close to "infinite" computing power. With great power comes great possibilities for bugs

Perhaps we are in fact living in one of the simplified simulations and will be turned off at any second after I have finished this senten

[wongarsu]

We also can't rule out that Gaia or Odin made the world five minutes ago, and went to great lengths to make the world appear ancient.

It certainly makes sense if you assume that the world is a simulation. But does it actually explain anything that isn't equally well explained by assuming the simulation simulated the last 13 billion years, and evolution really happened?

[j1elo]

As long as we don't get to the point of being able to simulate a Universe ourselves, the odds are against us being in a simulation, it seems! :)

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EeqyGquTHK4

[sangnoir]

There's a built-in assumption that there would be no constraints applied on nested simulation anywhere further down the stack, which is IMO unlikely, unless every layer has unlimited compute, or otherwise interested in investigating nested simulations.