[randomracker]

It's probably better to resist the temptation to ascribe meaning to models. The model is the meaning, nothing more or less. If we observe these artifacts, it means that's a property of our universe. Really, we're completely locked within that system and can't say that it means anything else.

But, I'd argue that if we can be a simulation, we're ignoring the qualia of consciousness issue. So I'd say that if we can be a simulation, we can just be one of those mathematical entities in Platonic space. The universe seems to be written in math, perhaps all of this is just what it's like to be one of those Platonic ideals.

There's not much use in speculating in that which cannot be falsified.