A better question is to ask whether you think Poincare recurrence[1] on a universal scale is possible. Because infinity does funny things to probability: namel

A better question is to ask whether you think Poincare recurrence[1] on a universal scale is possible. Because infinity does funny things to probability: namely it makes them certainties. And infinity has an important consequence to questions like "why do we exist" - or more specifically, "why do I exist?" - namely that non-existence is one of the least relevant states you can be in. Consider how you didn't perceive 13 billion years of universe history before suddenly, you. And after you die, you'll also not perceive an unbounded - infinite - amount of time into the future. Unless, suddenly, you. The simulation hypothesis is a logical extension of the overall question here: since as a technological species we almost immediately started trying to find ways to simulate the universe, then there are two important questions: is the universe computable in general? And if it is, then it implies that the universe itself can be simulated on any Turing machine, given sufficient time. And time is the one thing, provided we're not existing, that we have an infinite amount of. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9_recurrence_theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9_recurrence_theor...