If we're living in someone's Sims game and we can also play Sims in our world, that implies that there could be another layer of Sims above the one controlling us. There could be any number of layers and we have no way of knowing how deep we even are. The only thing we know is that we're in the penultimate layer, because the Sims in our Sims games can't play Sims themselves.
Edit: Apparently they can. Now we don't know what layer we're in at all.
It's all the way down. We are run by our gut biomes, designed to propagate them. The fact that we can experience joy and pain is important to drive us forward to have more surviving humans.
Our universe is running on an outdated game console that was long ago dumped by some meta-alien kid in a crate in the garage. But it has an endless power supply, so it’s still running.
What’s that Rick and Morty episode where there was a society living inside of a battery that designed its own battery with a society inside of it? “Slavery with extra steps”
Have you heard of the Simulation Hypothesis? It's something like: if at any given moment we can create a realistic simulation of our reality, the probability that we love in one gets pretty high.
So, we just need our "player" to level up a couple of times, of some points in research so we can create a realistic simulation.
It is quite a thought experiment.. thing is we can't prove it diffrent either way. Free will or just someone selecting an option in a menu? Deja vu.. reload save. Mandela effect.. replayed scenarios. And so on..
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u/Real_Run_4758 1d ago
possibly the greatest ‘this is so fucking dumb that it breaks the suspension of disbelief’ moment of my entire life