The Multi-Simulation Thesis: Quantum Physics as Evidence for Multi-Simulations

Superseded Paper Notice This document represents an earlier draft of my work on the multi‑simulation thesis. It has since been fully developed and expanded into the paper: Augusto Bartolomeu, *The Multi‑Simulation Thesis: Quantum Physics as Evidence for Multi‑Simulations* (2025). Readers are strongly encouraged to consult the updated version, which provides systematic arguments, expanded engagement with objections, and a fuller positioning within the scholarship of quantum interpretations and simulation theory. This earlier draft is preserved here as a marker of the project’s intellectual trajectory. This paper advances the multi-simulation thesis, a reinterpretation of quantum mechanics and the simulation hypothesis. Where traditional approaches such as Everett’s Many-Worlds interpretation proliferate infinite universes, this model proposes multiple parallel simulations — sibling runs of a single informational codebase. This reframing aligns with key quantum phenomena: wavefunction collapse as on-demand rendering, entanglement as shared memory access, the Planck scale as pixelation, and quantum computing as cross-simulation querying. Consciousness is treated not as a byproduct of computation but as a portal function within the simulation, a mechanism by which possibility collapses into form. The thesis further extends to cultural domains, arguing that monuments, archives, and collective memory act as civilizational measurement devices — collapsing history much like observation collapses quantum states. By connecting physics, philosophy, and culture, the multi-simulation thesis offers a more parsimonious and coherent framework than multiverse accounts, while also accommodating anomalies such as déjà vu and the Mandela Effect. Though not conventionally falsifiable, its value lies in explanatory scope, coherence, and its ability to unify disparate phenomena under a single informational ontology. © 2025 Augusto Bartolomeu. All rights reserved.