[silverquiet]

> Maybe it’s a simulation being run for a purpose, and the beings running it care about the outcome.

This sounds an awful lot like a higher being who sits in judgement of their creation; and something that humanity seems to reach for very quickly. I was taught something similar as a child, but lost the belief when I was still quite young. I'd love to believe in a higher power or purpose because nihilism is quite a terrible experience. I often wonder if I'm just wired differently so in some way unable to believe things as others are or if a lifetime of chronic pain has revealed things to me that most people do not learn until they are older.

[dasil003]

It’s hubris to think we can know anything about the reason for the existence of the universe. But just because we can’t know doesn’t mean there is no reason, that line of thinking is just hubris in the other direction.