Digital Philosophy and Religion

[Odysseus]

It is a possibility, but a testable one. The idea being that a simulation would need to be Turing computable. If we found phenomena that wasn't computable or if we found a computer that could compute Gödel unprovable statements, it would be a violation. According to the Penrose Hameroff conjecture the brain is a candidate for being such a computer. Though orchestrated objective reduction has many criticisms, recent experimental evidence has shown quantum phenomena does exist in brain microtubules. You can read more here:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_reality

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computati...rse_theory

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestra..._reduction

http://phys.org/news/2014-01-discovery-q...rates.html