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I'm about half-way finished the design specs for my God Computer (GC). The GC is a theory that the universe in which we live is actually a computer simulation, written by intelligent digital life forms who live in a digital universe of their own. That digital universe is a relatively simple computer whose vast memory is organized as a 2D array of bits. When I'm finished my design specs (so far I've designed the high level and the low level; the middle level has yet to be designed), I intend to write a Windows-based simulation of the GC. When that's done I'm going to upload the simulation to this web site, and publicize the GC on 2 forums: a philosophy forum and a science/computer science forum.
I maintain that the design I have come up with is just about the most concise and elegant possible design for a mathematical, digital computer that exists in almost pure software, independent of real-world transistors, electrons, and logic gates. Despite its simplicity, my design is scalable, so it can be used to simulate our universe, with its subatomic particles numbering up to 10 raised to the 200th power. There are billions of possible computer designs. Perhaps they all exist simultaneously in a vast digital universe. Every clock tick, for every possible computer design, a new memory is generated, identical to the memory from the previous clock tick, and if that memory is treated as one long integer, it is incremented. Then that same memory becomes dynamic, and is executed by the current computer design. The vast majority of memory-computer design pairs don't actually do anything interesting. But a select few actually work. And a tiny fraction of those that work generate digital life forms, and each life form has its own copy of digital DNA, and they evolve and become ever more complex, and eventually achieve sentience. Then these sentient beings write a computer simulation of our universe, starting with the big bang.
This theory of mine is compatible with all the world's major religions. Take Christianity, for instance. Assume that Christianity is the one true religion. The creators of our universe (a computer simulation) somehow detected that intelligent life has evolved on earth. So they created a database of all humans, living or dead. Those humans who pray and worship Jesus are granted special status by our creators. After every human dies, our creators save a digital copy of the human's brain (the soul), and a Boolean, yes/no decision is made: either that soul is saved, or it isn't. Those souls which are saved go to a place called Heaven, and dwell there for all eternity.
I realize my GC idea sounds like science fiction. But it's the only Creation theory I know of that does away with the need for a mystical Creator that has existed since the beginning of time. There are just so many countless GCs out there in that digital universe, and at least one of them clicked, so here we are.