Are We a Simulation?

Is it possible that....

"our universe is a simulation with finite boundaries. Maybe we have yet to achieve contact with aliens because the universe we observe is a computational artifact and there are no aliens … except, possibly, for the ones responsible for the simulation in the first place."

Or perhaps...

"we're an anthropological experiment set loose in an agar of code; somewhere, overseers could be watching our plight with keen interest."

And then again...

"we may not only be a simulation, but a simulation within a simulation. Or, more demeaning yet, a simulation within a simulation within a simulation."

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