The simulated universes and why they should be real

                       First off, Everything is mathematical. Ever since scientists have been exploring the cosmos and trying to figure out the underlying mechanisms of the universe, with every layer they unfold, they have been greeted with a more and more complex symphony of various algorithms which tell matter and space how to behave . Every behavior of every element of our universe can be reduced to an algorithm which accurately predicts the future. The universe reveals itself to be very similar to a computer code which maybe somebody wrote (If you want to go the creationist route). It is so mathematical that it might as well just be a computer programme running on a super computer in an ‘Outside’ real universe.

Secondly , It's only statistical

                       Simulations have been a part of computer programming since a long time. We know that we can simulate a lot of things on computers. From light rays in video games to ocean and air currents to understand weather patterns, we can simulate a lot of physical systems . The simulations that we can run get better and better with every new and faster generation of computer hardware. If this simple predictable trend is to be followed, The materialists of the world will tell you that there is no denying that in a few decades or centuries we would be able to simulate entire worlds and universes with a outstanding levels of detail. Details and complexity so astounding that simulated humans and animals could have subjected experiences called consciousness (as we do in our universe).

                                         The motivation to simulate entire woulds and universes is abundant. Historians would wanna study history and check out all the “What If” scenarios. Sociologist would be able to study the behavior of large populations of people over centuries by just a click of a button. Biologists would be able to study extinction and migration patterns on huge scales and testing out so many scientific and historical theories would be much much easier and accurate. The practical implications and benefits of such technologies and projects are obviously amazing and game changing.

                                         Now if the main universe reaches a stage of advancement where these experiments are being carried out, There would be multiple and several simulated universes and inside the one real universe. And if that situation is true and lots of conscious beings exist in various simulations and as well as the real universe, Then the statistical likelihood of a conscious being existing in a simulated one is simply way bigger than the conscious being existing in the real universe. Simply stating the number of simulated universes would always outnumber the the parent universe. And if simulations are possible, (which they are) there would be way more simulated universes than real ones.

                                        We would also have to account for the possibility that a simulated universe can run its own simulations inside it. The only caveat being that every subsequent simulation run inside a simulation would have to be a downgrade in complexity. For example - The simplest form of downgrade of complexity could be the number of dimensions. We being in a 3 dimensional universe can easily simulate a 2 dimensional one. Hence, using the same logic, our universe could very easily be the simulation of a 3 dimensional universe inside a 4 dimensional one. If this factor is considered the number of possible simulated universes inside the one real one reached infinity as the situation becomes fractal. 

                      Each level going down in complexity also makes it impossible for the universes or simulations to understand their parent simulations as they would always be a level of complexity above. This is easy to understand with the analogy that you can understand, control and play with an ant farm but an ant farm can't do the same with you as their brains are far less complex than yours. So if the simulation theory is true then we are not only a simulation inside a parent universe, We are a simulation in a parent universe that we can never understand or fathom as it’s complexity supersedes our (simulated) physical capabilities.

                      So strictly looking at our universe as it is , and understanding how simulation things in a computer is inevitable for a conscious and intelligent species , the probability of our universe being a simulated one rather than the original one is almost a hundred percent. And even if we figure out conclusively, that we are inside a simulation, we can never even begin to understand the purposes of our existence as the parent beings in the parent universe would be so far above and beyond our contemplation. It would be as if we were created by gods know us; whom we can only learn about but never understand. (Chapter 7, Text 24 : The Bhagwad Gita As It Is )