It’s baffling to me these findings get closer and closer to software, some papers even use the term ‘design’, still other materials postulate our universe could be a simulation, and yet it’s mockable to consider whether there’s something cleverer than ourselves outside our universe that caused thus to be so.

The question seems the same as, could an AI in a virtual world deduce or prove its artificialness or the reality outside the virtual?

To me that’s more interesting than the simple credulity implied by moon cheese.