[joseph_b]

Everything sounds so simple until we try to explain it.

If the emulation is contained inside the universe being emulated, do you think the emulated universe includes the emulation contained within it? Does the emulation now contain another emulation? If so, now many emulations?

[ridgeguy]

Pretty sure it's emulations all the way down.

[TuringTourist]

And if that is the case, the odds are basically 0 that we happen to be the first of an infinite number of universes emulating themselves

[airstrike]

But that really has no bearing on our emulated selves. For us, this is the one reality that matters