Simulation theory is one of my very favorite things to think about.
To explain it, it could be one of many options.
- The way technology is going, and with video games becoming more and more like real life, maybe in about 200 years we have a way to connect someone to a game that is so real, it would be indecipherable from reality.
So, if we can see this in our foreseeable future, then who is to say that we have not already gotten to this point? Perhaps our technology has developed so much that most jobs and every day tasks are done by computers and we have all become obsolete.
Therefore we have hoodwinked our self, hijacked our sensations to be back in the golden age 2018. When food is "fast" and we are no longer bums begging for sustenance tablets on the wind highways, or trying to keep up with the working class by downloading updates to your Neuralink every 15 minutes to keep up with A.I.
I can only imagine with the furthest reaches of my thoughts what it would have taken for us to wipe our minds and joined this simulation, that is to say that we even had a choice.
Pretty fun to think about. This is just possibility #1
More ideas and thought nuggets to come.
..... to be continued.