If a hamster is offered 3 tubes to pass down, then it has a choice. But in reality the choices are configured by an outside entity. So freedom is just an illusion of the choices presented to you. I could go jump out my window, but keep in mind the window is there for me to jump out. I could jump off my porch, but the porch is already there to start with.
The latest Sims game shows the family playing an older Sims game. Do they know they are in a game?
The whole philosophy is based on how technology progresses. If human kind makes it to post-humanity, then there is a 20% possibility they will run simulations to find out exactly how they got that far, and what the process where. By then we will have AI, and organic computer systems. We are already running computer analysis, and simulations on everything we dont understand. Its not a far stretch that our future fathers will be doing the same thing. Only with organic super computers. Maybe GOD is the programmer. Who knows.
You have to admit that certain people/things in the past can look like they were planted. People blame aliens, I think its more than that. I think people like Hawking, Einstein, and the people who gave us math, art, music, ect were carefully added to the equation.
I'm not religious about this, but I have seen, and experienced many things in my life that can be explained with the simulation theory, and nothing else. Well, except GOD, and aliens. How do you explain Karma? I know for a fact it exists, and have seen it happen more times than not. Can you explain this force? Or do you label act of GOD on things you cant comprehend? Like miracles.