Something existing outside of your experience is as simple as two kids in the third world playing together. The abstract concept of events occurring outside of your realm of perception shouldn't be novel or difficult to imagine - just think of the things you do when no one else is around, then reverse that notion.
Simulation, to me, means an approximate recreation. To say that your experience is a simulation leads me to wonder what you're a simulation of. An act can't simulate itself as it's not approximately itself, it is itself.
Words need uniqueness to be helpful as a form of communication, and if we call simulations anything acting like something else OR itself, then by calling something a simulation, you're just stating its existence, which I can't find a reason to do that can't be accomplished in a more direct way.
In other words, yes things exist. Let's not ruin the word 'simulation' trying to say so!
Simulation, to me, means an approximate recreation. To say that your experience is a simulation leads me to wonder what you're a simulation of. An act can't simulate itself as it's not approximately itself, it is itself.
Words need uniqueness to be helpful as a form of communication, and if we call simulations anything acting like something else OR itself, then by calling something a simulation, you're just stating its existence, which I can't find a reason to do that can't be accomplished in a more direct way.
In other words, yes things exist. Let's not ruin the word 'simulation' trying to say so!