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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zappo" data-source="post: 2361342" data-attributes="member: 633">Let's put it another way. Chances are you've seen The Matrix. Picture something similar, except that the system is good enough that there is no way to become disconnected from the Matrix, and no way to become aware of it. Now you've got a universe which is entirely controlled by a superintelligent computer program. Most of the time, it follows a set of laws. But the controlling program can violate any of these laws at will, creating arbitrary effects in the world. And, while we design computer programs to be predictable and follow rules, they don't actually need to do so. Quantistic random number generators capable of providing true randomness are already available. Or the program could have more instructions than there are atoms in the simulated world, and be theoretically impossible to understand by beings within the Matrix. Neither assumption is unreasonable (at least, not more unreasonable than using humans as batteries in place of cows - The Mootrix).Now take away technology and say the program is A Sleeping God, and you've got Canis' hypothesis.</blockquote>