[RightOnTheBorder]

Uhm...if we are a simulation then we have no clue how physics works in the real world that the computer or simulator is running in right? Does the physics of a video game have to match real life physics??

That higher order simulation would be different than humanity’s concept of a simulation, one might call it creation. I think what this proof says is no matter how powerful and knowledgeable we become we are not able to re-create ourselves.

This mirrors wisdom given to us thousands of years ago in the Old Testament.

[AndyTheBear]

From Natural Theological proofs like those of Descartes and may others, even if we were in a simulation ultimately there would have to be God as the final perfect thing with aseity et al.

But putting aside revelation, and just going on Natural proofs, we have no idea how many intermediate steps there might be between us and God. And something that might be closer to be described as a simulation than to anything else that lends itself metaphorically might be the first step.