Alastair_Sim was a human actor that stared in the Scrooge_(1951_film), in which he encountered a few sim like ghosts in his earthly reality. The concept of sentient entities or ghosts from a different frequency of the universe that can temporarily intersect and interact on this dimensional plane of existence, has been around since ancient times.
https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Ghost
https://www.ea.com/en-gb/games/the-sims/the-sims-4/news/ts4-ghosts
"A guide to all ghost powers and abilities in The Sims 4, including interactions with other sims and with objects." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgT8eaCsdg4 , https://www.youtube.com/c/PeteyPlaysIt/videos
So what if Alastair_Sim as the Scrooge character, was in a simulation story interacting with sim-ghosts? What if this world is part of some kind of a cosmic construct of reality?
The 3D characters & the ghosts are all sims in the computer game & program.
Charles_Dickens was essentially writing about ghost-sims in the earth reality or simulation back in the 1840s.
From a cantankerous old man story to a kids story playing in a very high-tech sandbox
or VR
room.
https://wikimedia.org/Holodeck
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d3/Holodeck2.jpg (What if your life is a lemon? Then you might try to see if you can improve things.)
"Among popular public thinkers advocating for the simulation hypothesis is Elon Musk who stated: if you assume any rate of improvement at all, games will eventually be indistinguishable from reality“ before concluding “that its most likely we’re in a simulation.
Elon Musk is known in the philosophical community to make "outrageous" claims, whether its about the advent of digital superintelligence, or in this case, according to some skeptics of the simulation hypothesis, Elon Musk exaggerates the probability that we might be living in a simulation.
Another high-profile proponent to the hypothesis is famous astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson, who said in an NBC news interview that the hypothesis is correct giving “better than 50-50 odds” and adding: I wish I could summon a strong argument against it, but I can find none
In a review of the literature on simulated realities, philosopher Nick Bostrom argues that although it is difficult to prove that we are living in a simulation, "It is nevertheless generally considered acceptable philosophy to question the reality of our own existence.
A typical member of an advanced civilization would have a high probability of being among the simulated minds rather than among the original biological ones. Therefore, if we are typical, we should consider that we might be living in a simulation. Thus, the possibility that we are living in a simulation is greater than we might have supposed.
Some hypotheses hold that if it is possible to simulate reality, then it is also possible to leave behind copies of everyone within these simulations. It has further been suggested that these simulated people may be conscious or sentient, although this idea belongs more in the realm of philosophy rather than scientific inquiry.
Donald Hoffman Proves That We Live in a Simulation
2016 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: Is the Universe a Simulation?
Digital Combat Simulator World https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoIiSS0lfL7aX4BtbC-YGQA
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=simulation
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Sims Humanoids from clay to digital dolls.
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Nature+Of+Reality
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Simulation+Hypothesis
