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So Are we being simulated? Well, maybe, but there are a few conditions that need to be met, obviously, we have no authority over this topic, so please take everything I say with a grain of salt, based on a modified version of the original simulation argument by Nick Bostrom, we have five assumptions for you, if they're true, you dear reader are living in a simulation, it's possible to simulate consciousness, but nobody knows what consciousness is, for the sake of argument, let's assume that you could generate consciousness by simulating a brain, brains are pretty complex, if you count every interaction between synapses as one operation, your brain runs at about ten to the power of seventeen, for one hundred million billion operations per second, let's generously assume we need ten to the power of twenty operations, to simulate one second of human consciousness, but, we don't want to simulate just one human... We want to simulate all of human history at once, so we can skip around, let's say we want to simulate two hundred billion humans, with an average life span of fifty years, one year has thirty million seconds times fifty years, times two hundred billion humans, times ten to the power of twenty operations, so we need a computer able to handle million, trillion, trillion, trillion operations per second, more operations than there are stars in the observable universe, a computer like this is just impossible, except, maybe it isn't.