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I was thinking of idea for a sci-fi story and not being a physicist wanted to know if there are any fundamental weaknesses in the support conjectures. First I allow for some givens, which of course are far from "givens" within the scientific community. The first given is that consciousness arises as the result of increased complexity whereby as the technology increases computer "avatar" characters, (the beings which inhabit a virtual world), may achieve autonomy and actually believe themselves to exist within their virtual world. The next "given" is that if such a program were situated in close proximity to a singularity, say a constructed mini black hole that while from the time view of the inhabitants of this virtual world time would appear to run quite normally, it would be in sharp contrast to the program observers. I might include the "dark matter" anomaly as a clue to one of the virtual characters of the unreal nature. I would also place this program close enough to the black hole construction whereby the strong gravity would cause a huge time difference so that a 15 billion year program could be run in say 3 hours. (I have a bit more on this but I have to leave for a while and will return to this post later.)