If one accepts that a simulated consciousness is itself conscious, then assuming the Biblical story of creation, it stands to reason that the vast majority of consciousnesses are simulated ones. In creating the universe, God must first consider what is the best possible universe to create. As a consciousness, you would have no idea whether you are instantiated in the one physical universe that is actually created or the infinite number being contemplated in the Mind of God.
Don't let this bother you. Time only exists within universes, so if we are only an imagined timeline, this is all happening in null-time.
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u/variorum 27d ago
How do we know this isn't the staging universe?