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Here's a novel thought experiment for you, distance isn't at all like we percieve it when you come to the underlying reality.
Hold that assumption and suddenly alot of angst goes away. But this is not more workable then saying we'll we are all just deluded but self aware sub-routines in some more advanced civilisations computers. You can't prove or disprove it. You can reason that one day with enough technological advancement that we might be able to easily create such an environment, which quickly bring you to the conclusion - hey that's what we are - someone beat us to it and the illusion is approaching self awareness.
But a fractal universe gives a model to theoretically describe, test for predictive power and test against the data. And under 18 months is a very short time in the world of modern science.
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