Ai yai yai!!!
We have an insurmountable origin problem.
The origin of the universe is unknown. Supposedly, it all started off with an incomprehensible state of physics-defying, math-defying, hot dense mass, then a big bang happened, and next thing you know, x billion years later, we have this close-to-infinite universe around us.
How?! Naturally, they say!
The origin of life is unknown. Primordial soup, reducing gasses (none of which existed on early earth) were assumed and yet the best of human minds couldn't produce the most basic of building blocks of life in our most sophisticated of laboratories using the latest and greatest instruments. Mind you, at this point, we are not even talking about the problem of amino acids linking up to form long chains of proteins and then RNA and then DNA and then special cells like neurons and then ...humans...
How did all this happen?! Naturally, they say!
So intelligently guiding the systems and processes couldn't produce anything worthwhile but that's not stopping some of them from saying that somehow everything came about naturally!
You don't need a PhD to say this is B.S.
Nature is random and randomness supports disorder, not order.
If early neanderthals could become the current day humans, by extension, the current day humans could become super intelligent (thanks to AI and other advances) in x years that we too could at least simulate the universe that we live in. It has to be a virtual world logically because even the fundamental particles that make up the universe that we live in are nothing but potentials / probabilities (a.k.a. waves) when we get to the nitty gritty of it suggesting this too is a virtual world.
Why would we simulate? We would simulate because we are naturally curious. Curious to know how self sustaining electro-chemical systems can form and evolve. Curious to find a solution to the origin problem.
Any entity that is conscious would like to know how it came to be. As simple as that.
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