[Klathmon]

Well depending on scale, your entire "existence" could be a few "minutes" in the "real world" (that's a lot of quotes...)

Much like how we are making ML applications now, you could be a complicated AI who's purpose is to calculate something encoded in your experience. You wouldn't need to know your purpose in order to complete it.

I'm clearly grasping at straws here, its just fun to think about :)

[breuleux]

I find it far-fetched, but you're right, it is fun to think about :)

To be fair, far-fetched things happen all the time, the trick is that we're usually wrong about which ones do.