Well depending on scale, your entire "existence" could be a few "minutes" in the "real world" (that's a lot of quotes...) Much like how we are making ML applic

Well depending on scale, your entire "existence" could be a few "minutes" in the "real world" (that's a lot of quotes...) Much like how we are making ML applications now, you could be a complicated AI who's purpose is to calculate something encoded in your experience. You wouldn't need to know your purpose in order to complete it. I'm clearly grasping at straws here, its just fun to think about :)