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I think if I were to have to guess, I would say that the reason we exist–or,
to be more precise–the cause of our existence, is the creation by
another life form for the purpose of experimentation.

This is not a new idea, but let me put my1 particular spin on it.

When I say experimentation I don’t mean that in a crude way. I don’t mean
like, “see if they kill each other.” I mean more like, “see what they create
that we’ve never seen before.”

The idea is that for the creator of a universe only one thing would be
interesting, and that is seeing something new. I don’t imagine this
as tinkering at the earth-life level, e.g. dropping ingredients into the
primordial soup. I see this more like adjustments to primary physical
variables such as the strength of the strong and weak forces within atoms.
Minute changes in these types of variables result not in different color
plants on Earth, but rather different laws of physics, and thus different
types of universes.

Again, the goal with creating entirely different sets of physical laws and
different types of universes is just to get something interesting. The vast
majority of everything will be boring, and there exists the possibility that
if no randomness exists that everything is boring, but it’s hard to
imagine a non-fantasy-based life form that has full perspective of a purely
deterministic world, i.e. one that can see all outcomes of all particle
interactions within a universe.

Mind-boggling.

Anyway, one thought here is that our existence is, by itself, extremely odd.
This isn’t to say it’s unlikely given our physical laws or anything like
that, but simply that it’s remarkable that we do exist in the first place.
Not just remarkable–downright nutty.

What I think is far more unlikely than superior life forms creating us is
the notion thatwe’ve just always been, and that we don’t require a cause.
Sure, that leads back to thefirst-cause counter for who created our
creators, but let’s take small steps.

My recent thoughts are that it’s not really that foolish to speculate on a
possible origin of our existence, as long as you do so with a good amount of
understanding regarding our limitations and biases when doing so. The
primitive and dangerous path, of course, is to say, “Aha! You admit it’s
strange that we’re here, and that it doesn’t make sense, and that we were
most likely created by something. Well, I know who it was. He wrote this
book.”

That last part is the problem. Going from “something probably made us” to
“…and I know who it was” is not just a jump, it’s a teleportation of massive
proportions into a wall of stupidity. The problem is that such specific
beliefs have clear causes, and that those causes can be documented easily by
science.

But returning to the point, it’s ok to think about possible theories for our
existence, and I think the “search for newness” simulation theory is a good
one. ::

1 I say my knowing full well that this could be well traveled
territory that I simply haven’t explored myself yet. Oh well; it is what it
is.