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No, the point remains though that the rules of their universe would be connected to the rules of ours. The simulation designer would not be creative enough to design a universe that didn't fall somewhere on the spectrum of having a complete inversion of the rules of their universe or having an exact copy of the rules of their universe.
The design of ours is constrained by the context which the designer is starting from, because there are natural limits to what would be conceivable even to the denizen of a universe completely different from our own in its make.
We can't infer the rules directly from this information, but we can draw conclusions about what they wouldn't be.
Like determining the inputs of a function by reversing operations and using the outputs of the original as the inputs for that...only a lot less exact because universal rules aren't (always) numbers.
Why do you think that an entity or set of entities capable of simulating the entirety of our existence would have their creativity capped in a way that’s meaningful to us?
Can you give an example of a rule for a containing reality that you think we could rule out?
now you're making assumptions about how the creators of our simulation think, when we also know nothing about them
why would you assume they think in the same way we do? why would you assume what they do would even be considered "thinking" by us at all?
firstly, i don't think that holds true under the laws of our universe
secondly, why would it hold true under the laws of theirs?