So you believe this reality was created by a creator for some purpose and the creator is a programmer.
No, I do not.
You said it's a simulation, so what, did the simulation come from nothing on accident or something for a purpose
I don't believe I can prove what created it. Given that the extreme options on either end could be sentient life creating it (as you've described), or random numbers within a computational system aligning enough to self-improve creating a singularity level AI that also created it at are two readily available options.
You appear to need to have an answer to things which are unanswerable. I don't have this problem. I look at what I can see with my own eyes as evidence, not what I cannot prove.
Agnostic, that's fine I'm the same, I won't say anything is true that I cannot prove but I can believe something I cannot prove, you simply cannot function by only doing what you have personally proven it's absurd. So you believe that an ai could potentially randomly create sentient life since you said that was a possibility. Also if you believe that there is an ai that is running what created it and what does it run on? Did this simulation randomly get created from randomly existing matter or was it crafted by a creator? My questions still apply regardless of your model, and it's a simple question: did reality come from something on purpose or nothing on accident? What do you believe is more likely since nobody can prove either? I think we came from something with purpose because I find the latter far too absurd, it requires an impossible number of convenient coincidences with minimal interference.
I guess there are 2 other options which are we exist because of a creators accident or we came from nothing with a purpose, where sentient life drove its own evolution (which is somewhat observable through partner selection) I'd say those are both redundant as even if it were an accident the creator would have had some purpose in mind when creating and the same argument appears again for the purpose from nothing, where did that purpose come from? Created or spontaneous?
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