When attempting to quantify nature, which I assume many have tried, one's efforts are in vain, ALWAYS. Take, for instance, the number of branches I see before me…although we know, through common logic, that there exists a number that describes the quantity, when faced with the task of actual calculation and observation, we are hopeless. The same can be said about sand grains on a beach, or stars in the heavens. There are simply too many to count.

The theory of humankind living in a computer-generated world is absurd. Computers are products of humankind. We make them, we understand them. Although computers can compute enormous numbers, when faced with an "incorrect" statement, x/0 or 0/0, they cease functioning. A computer can generate an image well, but it can never replicate that of nature.

There can exist no computer, machine, earthly-based thing that can ever - TRULY - replicate nature.

Only something "outta this world" could be capable of doing such a thing.