World Layers

World Layers are different layers to the world of Anonymous;Code. In Anonymous;Code, there is an Earth simulator called GAIA that simulates not just the planet, but every detail of what happens on Earth, from geological features like Earth’s crust to people. While GAIA is originally just a geological simulation with no people, it gets more advanced when the Arecibo Message is used to generate people in it.

Inside the GAIA simulation, the simulated people build their own GAIA simulation, and presumably the people inside that simulation build a simulation themselves and so on, and those are the lower world layers which are confirmed to exist. This causes the people in Anonymous;Code to worry and panic that maybe they are all just living in a simulation created by people in a hypothetical higher world layer, although this is unproven.

Since there exists a Brain-Machine Interface allowing people to directly interface their brains with machines, it is possible for someone with hacking skills to hack into GAIA and interfere with what happens in lower world layers, and even directly interact with people in the lower world layers using the Brain-Machine Interface.

There is also an idea in Anonymous;Code of “hacking God” which is referenced to the theme song of "Steins;Gate", which would mean hacking the current world layer, which people originally thought was the real world, but is theoretically just a simulation being run in a higher world layer. The protagonist Pollon Takaoka has the ability to “loop”, using his ability called “Save & Load”, which he got from “hacking God”, and can also manipulate what goes on in lower world layers.

Here is a video of Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist George Smoot, whose Nobel Prize in Physics was for a major discovery about the structure of the universe (“discovery of the black body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation”), arguing in favor of the idea that our entire universe is just a giant simulation and that there are an infinite number of simulations (what Anonymous;Code would call “world layers”) both above and below the one we live in, that alien civilizations already exist that run simulated universes, that humanity will do so too in several decades once computing power gets powerful enough, that the human brain and consciousness can be digitized, that there are glitches in human consciousness and the laws of physics that could be considered bugs in our simulation, and that all of this is evidence for his hypothesis that it is simulations all the way up and all the way down: