Sorry for the snark, but Douglas Adams also demonstrated this: the earth as a super-intelligent computing device ended up getting a piece of itself onto a passing space ship, avoiding complete destruction.
I just like the idea of thinking about all of earth, including what we'd consider having or not having life, as a single super intelligence. Of course you could scale up to include the solar system, galaxy or even universe.
But this doesn't require us to be a simulation. This could be both a computing device and physical, so long as the engineer behind it existed in greater dimensions.
I just like the idea of thinking about all of earth, including what we'd consider having or not having life, as a single super intelligence. Of course you could scale up to include the solar system, galaxy or even universe.
But this doesn't require us to be a simulation. This could be both a computing device and physical, so long as the engineer behind it existed in greater dimensions.