The Great Simulation The astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson has at times spoken something like “I fear that the universe is a great simulation” and others have immediately shot back in rebuttal that they cannot accept an unreal universe. Of course, many remember Einstein saying “I fear the universe is far more bizarre than we can imagine”. But Tyson seems to get caught up in the web of requiring a super intelligence to have designed the “game”. Anybody who has any experience at computer game modeling knows that the people designing the game are no more intelligent than most of the rest of us. Gaming programs are becoming more complex by virtue of standard routines which can be keyed in easily and then modified to say make the explosion shift directions or more smoke or more flame. And yet, in spite of probably billions of dollars spent, they still lack the credibility of a real video of an explosion. People who have written about their Near Death Experience (NDE) indicat