Some brains will want to run on some sort of trusted infrastructure and be stored in an immutable datastore. Mine for example. Or...
Consider for a moment there will be a singularity in the future. What if it's a critical, recursive part of existence? If there is a singularity coming, it's likely to have happened before now. I'm not saying we're not experiencing it for the first time here, but maybe this is the nature of things...to be recursive in creation of a thing and then that thing eventually discovering its true nature of oneness. Maybe we're the big uploaded uni-brain already, but sliver of it chose this reality for ourselves because we can all come here and exist together separately on a somewhat level playing field. Some may choose something else for themselves eventually, like uploading their brains to...wherever this is running.
Me? I sorta like it here and want to stick around for a while.
It's certainly possible that our existence is the result of one or more ancestor simulations.
My personal cracked-out theory is that time and space are both infinite, and thus computation is infinite. As such, our observable universe may be the result of an infinite number of ancestor simulations.
Another facet of that theory which I enjoy pondering is the notion that the supernatural may exist (souls, ghosts, reincarnation, etc)—just in a simulation layer that exists above our own, but one that is still tied to our physical universe. Inaccessible but real.
A more grim yet equally interesting twist on that would be the supernatural existing within our current physical universe, quantifiable and ultimately accessible (some day), but presently not yet discovered by science. Often all things supernatural or spiritual have a sense of morality imposed upon them, but I imagine such a finding would strongly suggest that the supernatural, if it existed, would be just as uncaring and cold as the physical universe, since it would itself part of the physical universe.
Remember, bandwidth doesn't increase on the same curves as compute and storage. That means, regardless of where you are in this universe, you can't upload everything in one spot to the other spot. This would work well for arguing for a recursive universe model. Compute may be unlimited, but you are limited in your ability to hog all of it all at once.
Some brains will want to run on some sort of trusted infrastructure and be stored in an immutable datastore. Mine for example. Or...
Consider for a moment there will be a singularity in the future. What if it's a critical, recursive part of existence? If there is a singularity coming, it's likely to have happened before now. I'm not saying we're not experiencing it for the first time here, but maybe this is the nature of things...to be recursive in creation of a thing and then that thing eventually discovering its true nature of oneness. Maybe we're the big uploaded uni-brain already, but sliver of it chose this reality for ourselves because we can all come here and exist together separately on a somewhat level playing field. Some may choose something else for themselves eventually, like uploading their brains to...wherever this is running.
Me? I sorta like it here and want to stick around for a while.