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Comment author: DanielLC 11 April 2011 01:44:50AM 1 point [-]

There are a few ways entities within the simulation could deduce a reality outside their own.

I don't mean how would it be different from not having an outside universe. I mean: how would our universe containing the reason that there is a universe be different than only their universe existing and containing the reason that there is a universe?

In other words, if you live in universe A, and either your universe exists for some reason you don't understand, or it exists within universe B, which exists for some reason you don't understand, why would the latter hypothesis be less confusing?

Comment author: shokwave 11 April 2011 02:56:23AM 1 point [-]

The latter hypothesis should in fact be more confusing; it's isomorphic to the Creator's creator problem.