What if you’re unknowingly an android in the real world or a computer program in a cyber universe? You could be a sort of wind-up toy for the amusement of superior beings. Or a kind of lab rat being tested in scientific experiments.
If you’re really a rodent, you could try to figure out a way to ask the alien scientists to give you better experiments to perform. You could suggest they observe how you function and adapt as a billionaire, with a harem, who lives in Disney World, plays lead guitar for The Beatles, and hits clean-up for the Yankees. Life would be sweet!
Possibly even better than being a pampered lab rat is being a sophisticated cyborg or piece of self-aware software. You could suggest the superior aliens extend your lifespan to 1000 years. Or make you indestructible and immortal. Life might be even sweeter!
Many people today feel sad to realize that the universe is as big and unknown as it is, and that they might actually be like the androids Decker and Racheal in Blade Runner (1982), or like the computer programs Billy and Maria in Devs (2021). But the potential for rich experience, greatness, and happiness in this alternative existence seems immense. I kinda hope I secretly am an artificial being or computer simulation; and that my creator chooses to increase my quantity and quality of life radically!
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