Lately I’ve been wondering if what we call “reality” is just one instance within an infinite set of procedural simulations...like a sandbox server running on a cosmological engine we’ll never see. We experience time and consciousness linearly, but that might just be the default mode for this particular “build.”
In that sense, could the multiverse operate more like an infinitely branching tree of saved states? One reality diverges when a choice is made, another when quantum probability collapses a different way. Maybe each timeline is rendered in full only when observed...sort of like how VR environments load only when you're looking in that direction.
That makes me wonder:
If the multiverse is real, is it a branching model, or a rendered-on-demand illusion based on perspective and interaction, like a cosmic VR game?