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According to this theory, so far as I can tell, the events of Star Wars literally occurred. Is that correct?
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...
Yes, but perhaps not very much, and definitely not because we wrote a story about them; that's pure coincidence. Any story with finite information content should be coincidentally similar to some actual real universe, but following Solomonoff induction there's a sense in which the more complex ones are not as real as, say, us.