Maybe we are already there? Maybe your life is just a simulation? How do you know you have a past? Maybe your memories are an implant and you live the same day over and over again. How do you know people are dying around you? Those people in wars or your close relatives? You haven't died yet. Maybe it's all a sophisticated program to entertain you or a spectator.
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Yes, precisely. We could be at the end of such journey already. I concluded an essay I wrote a while back with this exact thought.
When able to break free from shackles of chaos as slaves to causality, only then we are able to mold our futures rather than being slaves to it.
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"The Matrix" explained why the machines entertain human brains with this whole simulation. I couldn't find the scene in half an hour of searching for it but the argument is about the stimulus needed for humans to thrive.
Maybe you’re dying around them.
However, does that really matter when rent is due?
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Then there is the all too understandable drive of people wanting the best for their babies. Child mortality was basically eradicated but children still die in stupid accidents. We build playgrounds without concrete corners and put up barriers wherever it could get dangerous. We don't want our off-springs to suffer debilitating injury but don't want to wrap them in cotton wool neither. I want my daughter experience danger without serious harm. I would employ a deus-ex-machina that would make sure she won't die while I'm not there to protect her. How far would that go? Did my parents do exactly that? Are we maybe even immortal? Or did we get full circle and invented the same protection for our children inside the Matrix, not realizing we already were in the Matrix to begin with? How many levels are there?
There’s a ln episode on start talk that discusses the levels. It could be levels all the way down.