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Their theory is interesting. If you discount God and purpose in creation (I don’t), then consider the odds of actually being alive during this portion of civilization (based on the number of people that have been alive, are alive and will be alive in the future, it is very unlikely that we are actually living right now. They don’t claim that the computer self organized but rather is created by our descendants to recreate earlier times.

It is an interesting though experiment.

That is like the guys who wrote a book explaining why the moon was impossible as chance so it must have been created. Since they do not believe in God it must be our future descendants who made it and sent it back through time to protect the earth. But there would be no descendants if the moon had not been there in the first place. Which creates an infinite loop and at that point their brains melted.

You can call it an interesting thought experiment if you like.

I am less kind.

[...] then consider the odds of actually being alive during this portion of civilization (based on the number of people that have been alive, are alive and will be alive in the future, it is very unlikely that we are actually living right now.

The odds of winning a sweepstakes might be a million to one - but someone has to win.

What are you going to tell that winner: That it's impossible that he won, because the odds are against it?

Regards,

A parallel theory to the hologram is that we actually exist in a physical world, yet one that is circumscribed by externalities.

To expand, if life isn't rare, but common, then this would suggest billions of potential civilizations spread throughout the universe(s). Depending on the progression curve (sum total of knowledge & understanding doubles every two years - referenced by Moore to describe a narrow engineering sector), we would expect a wide distribution between different population technological characteristics.

Since it would be highly unlikely - although not impossible - that humans would achieve a level of interstellar travel first, then we can then logically assume that some other race has already achieved that ability. So then, the question becomes: would they guide/interfere or simply observe?

If the predisposition to evaluate something new as either 'friend or foe' is universal across all life forms, then observation & evaluation would be a natural course of action. At some point, as humans first discover, and then refine the ability to transmit cognitive brain functions as simple light waves (ie virtual computer), then we'd be recognized as a race reaching the stage of joining other interstellar travelers.

At that point, perhaps there would be some kind of intervention, almost like a parent sitting down a child to explain the rules. Because of course there are going to be Loki types running around, interfering and upsetting regional populations with exposure, resulting in such beliefs as spaghetti and other god-like figures.