The Simulation Farce

People picture “the simulation” like there’s some cosmic server farm rendering us frame by frame — but that’s a misunderstanding of what “computational” even means.

Reality behaves algorithmically because it’s built from number theory — but not from whole numbers. It’s grounded in irrational and transcendental ratios: π, φ, √2 — infinite, non-repeating structures. These don’t “compute” to an endpoint; they’re living, self-referential harmonics.

Computers imitate that logic through finite resolution — a downsampled mirror of what the universe does naturally at infinite precision. So yes, reality resembles a simulation, but only because both trace the same mathematical geometry. There’s no hidden mainframe running the cosmos — only an eternal equation expressing itself from within.