[halfcat]

So in this kind of simulation, as we look closer, uncertainty is reduced.

But in our simulation (reality, or whatever), uncertainty increases the closer we look.

Does that suggest we don’t live in a simulation? Or is “looking closer increases uncertainty” something that would emerge from a nested simulation?

[quantadev]

The reason uncertainty goes up the closer we try to observe something in physics, is because everything is ultimately waves of specific wavelengths. So if you try to "zoom in" on one of the 'humps' of a sine wave, for example you don't see anything but a line that gets straighter and straighter, which is basically a loss of information. This is what Heisenberg Principle is about. Not the "Say my Name" one, the other one. hahaha.

And yes that's a dramatic over-simplification of uncertainty principle, but it conveys the concept perfectly.