We now have computers advanced enough to run simulations where people go about their lives in virtual worlds, and those people seem to make their own choices based upon the rules built into the simulation.
If we could communicate with these virtual people, how likely is it that they would be aware of their status as program sub-routines with no autonomy not mediated by their underlying program code?
How likely is it that these VR people would reject the truth, because their code tells them they are autonomous?
How likely is it that they would see us as God, if we were able to explain our own relationship to them?
How likely is it that they would create a religion based around attempting to understand our motives and actions towards them?
Now stop, and look up and ask yourself this: If this is true of us, if we are the Virtual Persons who only think they have free will, how likely is it that being we call God is a cosmic twelve year old boy playing a higher dimensional version of Sim City?
And how many times have you sent the Godzilla monster rampaging across your own Sim City just because it looks cool to watch the cities burn?
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