Hi Alea.....
"but i think we may create a digital safety pod to which we download our intelligence and our environment and our memories. and we won't know the difference between our reality and the program we inhabit.
doma thinks we are already in it."
I do not believe we exist in a virtual digital simulated universe created by physical entities that
once inhabited a physical universe....it is my belief that every universe and entity that has ever existed has been virtual.
But that is not to say that a virtual entity such
as humans cannot create another virtual simulated
universe and entities,within our own virtual universe.
Once we have enough computing power to be able to
host consciousness in A.I,we will have seeded the
creation of the next virtual digital lifeform and universe.
Lifeforms in our universe are carbon based because we
evolved from carbon based digital computer simulations.....