My pet idea is that we’re just the idle thoughts of some incomprehensibly vast intelligence. Imagine a world of intelligent ants. You might picture them workin

My pet idea is that we’re just the idle thoughts of some incomprehensibly vast intelligence. Imagine a world of intelligent ants. You might picture them working in their colonies. You might imagine their social interactions. Imagine a world where magic works according to certain rules. You’d think about how society functions, what sort of jobs people would have, you might even imagine some specific people. You might do this spontaneously, or in response to reading some random idea in an Internet comment. You are, in effect, running simulations. They are really basic and extremely low fidelity because the brain isn’t very good at it. But consider a vast intelligence capable of imagining our entire universe the way we might casually imagine the appearance of a zebra with a giraffe neck. For such a being, this act of imagination might not even be intentional. They might not even realize they’re doing it. Of course there’s no particular reason to think this is actually true, but I like the idea.