Is God the same thing as a hypothetical Universe Simulator?

I’m listening to a conversation between Sam Harris and Joe Rogan, in which they’re talking about god and the nature of reality, etc. At one point Sam questions the notion that God is considered a "personal" god - that is, a god that is offended if you don’t pray to him, etc. Joe responds by saying that the very fact that we have a sense of right and wrong suggests that perhaps God is not so personal after all.<br><br>Sam laughs and says, "Well then it’s not God. You just described a universe simulator. It’s just a system. If you saw the source code of it, you’d be like “Oh, this is just a system. I can get the source code. I can hack it. I can understand how it’s written.” It’s completely impersonal."<br><br>The more I think about this, the more and more I think that God is the same thing as the universe simulator. God did not write “source code.” He created a universe with its own laws and observances, and that’s what makes it so “personal” in the first place. If the Simulator wrote source code, this world would be completely deterministic; we wouldn’t have a choice. <br><br>But the very fact that we DO have a choice suggests we are living inside a simulated universe not written with code. Now, whether the simulator can modify the universe on the fly can be debated, but that’s about it.<br><br>Now I’m wondering, what is God other than a universe simulator?