[ars]

> So why do we dream "programming"?

Because the "you" that is conscious is actually your game player in another world. So it's that "person" that is actually programming. Your body here is basically a robot.

This would also explain why we can't figure out what consciousness actually is - if it's not physically in this world that would make it hard to figure out.

[olh]

This theory makes the need to logout/sleep even more puzzling: if the need to logout is not attached to the robot then why did it biologically evolve on the robot in the first place?

[ars]

That's the whole point - it's not the robot sleeping. For example people in a coma don't sleep.

> biologically evolve on the robot

I'm not aware of any multi-cellular organisms at all that don't sleep. None.

So if it did evolve it must have done so in a single celled organism that doesn't sleep, which of course makes no sense. (Why evolve the need for something you'll only need when multi-cellular?)