>Implying the simulation is the goal
What if all the boring stuff is part of a broader calculation?
It was meant more as a joke, but depending on how you look at it we can justify that our reality is actually a simulation and here is why.
Now if you allow yourself to believe that God exists, even if its not in the commonly ascribed form of organised religions, and also taking into account that without contextual knowledge the idea of God is as infinite as the idea of the universe in terms of expression, then one cannot ascribe to that being a motive outside of the creation of the world and reality, it is essentially an unknown.
Now allowing for that to be true, and taking into view most conventional religious practices that have their origins from a lost primitive world religion which branched out as humanity expanded and evolved and took their place as masters of the planet and evolved different languages and branches and expressions of religion which further split and bifurcated, but maintain common elements of those original ideas of the origins of humanity which where handed down. Such as the creation of humanity through a common ancestor, the common shared language and its breaking apart, and the flood myths all have places in early human religions, which were further condensed down into the more modern formats.
Now the question of humanity and religious expression beside, this is only to evidence that within the great world religions their is at least some common narrative about the creation of the world and it's reason for coming in to being, and the most obvious reason for the enlightenment of humanity as ascribed in the early myths that would form the basis for the book of Genesis, which in itself was taken from Sumerian religions and likely from before that from antediluvian religion beforehand, is that of free will and the expression of that free will.
If therefore if reality is a simulation, it is a simulation in which on this planet at least humanities expression of freedom of choice and free will would be the reason for any observation, otherwise it really wouldn't be an interesting simulation to begin with.
Also additionally at least in Western esoteric idea's and in the later aspects of both the Jewish talmud and later Christian text, there is a very clear path of philosophical thinking that the world and the universe in which it lies is corporeal and will be done away with at some point in the future.
Whether this is human insight into the nature of mans existence and a reasonable attempt to make an argument that the end of one aspect will lead to the creation of another is really interesting, because in both the expression of the Jews in the form of a messiah, and the Christian expression of the return of Christ as an intercessor, the idea is still fundamentally the same as evidenced in other early religions of the period that the world would return to nothingness.
The idea for humanity in both of these religions at least is encapsulated in the fact that after the world ends and is destroyed a new form would take it place, and those who did right by the edicts subject of the religion would have earned themselves a place in that new world.
As part of the more interesting outlines for the end of the world in the book of revelations it has a summary of the world being destroyed and then made again, which follows both the Jewish and Sumerian traditions of myth and legend and outlines that those beings who had achieved an enlightenment or redemption of spirit ascend into the next level of being, which in the particulars of western traditions is paradise or heaven, which in its original interpretations before any influences by coptic and Greek ideas, was the idea that one having overcome the duality of human nature through enlightenment in death would return to God and his mind/persona would be preserved in spirit while being returned to that power of creation free from the cares which plague humanity.
Which is not altogether dissimilar with the main thrust of karmic reincarnation in Hinduism and it's later reformations and adaptation into the Buddhist idea of nirvana and the oneness of spirit.
Even those who aren't inclined to any beliefs and believe that happenstance is the reason for being must admit that even under the parameters of that model, the experience of human life albeit short and often brutal is only a small portion of the collective cognizant flow of humanity as a species and the direction and evolution of which it will take.
They will play their own part without knowing how much their individual actions, biases, failures, successes, and the consequences of everything they experience will have an effect on the world around them from the lowest common denominator to the greatest influencers.
Even if this isn't the case, it doesn't really matter either since even if the majority of people were cognizant of their being within a perfect simulation, there wouldn't necessarily be any way for them to break the simulation, because the simulation would adapt to the circumstances.
Edit: Additional time to expand thinking on the subject.
