Dear Michael,
Congratulations on opening up a whole new conceptual area for intelligent discussion concerning the nature of the universe. You may not fully realize all of the implications that can result from a thorough analysis of the concepts that you have introduced into the conversation by your paper, but let me assure you that they are many and can, if pursued, lead to a great increase in man's understanding of the depth of the complexity of the structure of the universe. Although I have always believed that man has the ability to understand levels of structure that are deeper than those currently generally allowed by his current limited understanding of science, I did not think that it would be likely that I would be able to cover such concepts in public media due to the limitations of man's believability quotient in the structure of the current science hierarchy system. What you have done is to introduce structural concepts in a way that can be easily extrapolated in a form that should provide an easy insight into deeper structural possibilities of the nature and source of the universe.
Your model starts with a giant computer that first defines bits within itself as basic its (basic matter particles, energy photons, etc.). Each of these its would not just be one bit per it, but would be an information object that would contain all of the information of the properties and interactions which that particular type of it would contain to define its specific existence and possible actions and interactions. These objects could then interact with each other when they intersect each other in the spatial matrix that you have generated for them to move in. In so doing they could form atoms and then molecules, etc. in order to produce the larger scale structures that you mention in your paper to create a universe that would include internal intelligent observers that could make measurements of things in that universe.
Let's look at how this type of universe actually works:
1. It starts with an intelligent being (you in your example),
2. This being imagines and plans to make the universe in his own mind
(makes bits in mind that are stored as its of the structure of his
mind),
3. He makes intermediary structures (the computer, etc. that are its that
contain the bits of their structure) necessary to build and contain the
universe,
a. He finds a supply of basic material(s) (its that contain the
bits of their structure) from which all of the universe's support
structures are to be made,
b. He finds a source of power (an it that contains the bits of its
structure) to make and operate the support structures,
c. He makes the support structures,
d. He programs the computer with the basic spatial matrix (bits that
are stored as its in the computer's structure) for the particles
to move and act in,
e. He programs each of the different basic particles with its
properties and interaction capabilities (bits that are stored as
its in computer's structure),
f. He makes many copies of each particle and places them in their
proper beginning positions within the matrix (bits that are
stored as its in computer's structure).
4. He then sets each particle in motion in the matrix in the desired
direction and with the desired motion amplitude level, so that they
will interact with each other in the desired way to create the desired
atoms, molecules, and larger hierarchical structures to make the
universe be the way that it was originally planned to be (adds power or
motion to universe).
5. He can then perform any desired modifications over the time of the
universe's development, by making any desired changes to its
programming.
Such a universe would be limited to modeling only a portion of the real universe because each particle in the model would require the use of many real world particles to store its information object that described its internal structure and its external interaction capabilities and you could not use every particle in the real universe in your model. You could, however, make a large enough model to test the viability of the possibility of the existence of such a created universe. The real exciting thing, however, is that if you could make such a model, so that the intelligent beings that exist within it can see and sense other things within the model (their universe) in a way that is similar to the way we observe things in our universe, it would not require a major extrapolation to consider that our universe may be a model created by a much more intelligent and powerful being than us. You have, therefore, just introduced a logical argument in favor of our universe having been created by an intelligent being. You only have to replace yourself in item 1. above with the more intelligent and more powerful being (God) and the rest of the model can remain much the same. Of course, it would be likely that such a being would be able to make a much better universe than we could conceive of with our lesser abilities.
I waited quite a while to send this post because I wanted to allow you to get the greatest response from others that you could because based on my past experiments on man's knowledge tunneling and limited believability quotient, I figured that after I post this comment you probably will not get many more comments (at least positive ones). This is because man has currently attempted to define any mention of the possibility that the world was created by an intelligent being as unscientific. This kind of closing off of one's mind to possibilities is one of the major limiting factors man has had to scientific development for a long time. I, therefore, waited until you had gotten any important responses from others before I sent this comment, since I now think it will have very little effect on outcomes for you. I was also waiting to see if anyone else would have the insight and courage to point out the true significance of your contribution, but I only saw negative comment about the impossibility of making a computer to be truly intelligent, etc. Of course, it is not impossible and the intelligent beings in the computer universe would not need to be as intelligent as we are in the same way that we don't have to be as intelligent as the one who created our universe. They would only need to be able to understand and be able to make measurements for some purpose to meet your minimum requirements, etc. and machines could be built that would far exceed that level. I realize that you may not have considered this implication of the information that you provided in your paper and could even think of this comment as negative to you, but I assure you that I did not intend it to be so because you have really introduced valid concepts that should be considered and I wish you well in that endeavor.
Sincerely,
Paul N. Butler