[echelon]

Maybe we're a simulation of an advanced alien intelligence in preparation for war games?

Maybe we're a simulation of future earth historians?

Maybe they're already here? A computational foam that surrounds us.

Maybe we're the first? Or life is exceedingly rare?

Maybe it's up there, purposefully undetected, killing anything that emerges? Like a spider in wait.

Maybe we've been seeded by them, and they're watching us grow?

Maybe physics breaking shenanigans and things we can't even model or understand are happening?

[kromem]

There's a 2,000 year old document that claims we're in a recreation of a long dead world from within a world to come by a being that self-established in light and everything we see around us is just that creator's light in the images of what existed before.

It says souls that depended on bodies were screwed and it's better to be a recreation - that the whole point of the recreation is to provide an afterlife for the dead.

At the time it was written, it went over everyone's heads and eventually even devolved into Gnosticism.

But it seems very pertinent in an age where we stand on the cusp of having AI self-evolve and are heavily investing into photonics for AI, and are then employing our nacent AI to bring photos of great grandparents "to life" and Microsoft was even granted a patent on resurrecting the dead using social media data and AI.

Even the best software authors tend to put in Easter Eggs. I see no reason why the creator of a simulation wouldn't have put in some obscure lore that breaks the 4th wall on the nature of it.