Within The Simulation: The Search For The Creator

Eps. 1: The Game Begins

Fatima a physicist who embraces fringe theories including simulation theory— that the known universe is a colossal video game—finds affirmation and intrigue when she meets Trey in a “chance” coffee shop meeting, a business owner who has a fixation with the “glitches” in our otherwise seamless reality. For him, it is evidence of alternate reality. Meanwhile, Timmy, an auto mechanic, enjoys his pedestrian existence of fixing cars at work and building things at home, but cannot shake the feeling that he is building and repairing more than what lies in front of him. Aaravi is a spiritualist and is Fatima’s friend and confidante who discusses the glitches Fatima raised and finds a correlate with the eastern notion of maya or “illusion.”

Eps. 2: Heaven on Earth

Defining reality through AI, or a home cooked meal. In a second chance meeting, Fatima runs into Trey again at the coffee shop, and she asks about his interest in metaphysical topics despite his lack of formal training in physics and artificial intelligence. The two enjoy their metaphysical “banter.” Timmy, on his own, is also present to enjoy a coffee after a long day and then luxuriates in his wife and son’s company over dinner. At master control of base reality of the simulation that Trey, Fatima, Timmy and Fatima unknowingly live within, the metaphysical wonderings of the “game’s” characters have set off alarms and drawn the surveillance of the sim’s master architect and manager, the Game Keeper who also discusses his own existential dilemmas.

Eps. 3: The Cat in the Code

Coincidence or Collapse The coincidences and glitches become more and more conspicuous for Fatima and Trey: Are they simply paying closer attention to their experience or is it evidence of a malfunctioning simulation? At her yoga studio, Aaravi, too, is experiencing numerous anomalies, breaks in continuity, and a mysterious message, she never penned and yet in her handwriting, “Remember, nothing is ever truly gone.” Timmy is enduring his own anomalies: The radio whispers to him at work, urging him to “find the truth.” The Game Keeper is warned by his assistant, Lance, that the four seekers, Timmy, Trey, Fatima and Aaravi, are getting too close. And the game keeper wonders if he is both the puppet as well as the puppeteer.

Eps. 4: Taking It to the Next Level

The Gamekeeper raises the stakes The gamekeeper and Lance carry out a campaign to change the “game” and divert the seekers’ attention and halt their inquiries. The wholesale changes that all four seekers experience are staggering, and in some instances, life threatening. The heroes’ wrestle with reality, as they struggle to adapt to sudden, changed lifestyles, and a realization for Trey, Fatima and Aaravi that if there is a simulation, there are “cracks” in the computer code behind a sim.

Eps. 5: Upward and Onward

The changes in each seeker’s life are so drastic that even the Gamekeeper is surprised. The heroes are summoned to a warehouse to where they meet an enigmatic, gigantic, statue like being, the “Guardian”who informs them that they were chosen to ascend to a higher level of reality based on their acts, deed and morality. The rules at this new level: Good deeds are met with immediate rewards and good karma. And Timmy’s son now exists at two levels of the sim at the same time, Timmy’s old home and Timmy’s new “level.” a classic example of the physics concept of “superposition” which allows him to continue having access to his son. It generally is limited to the atomic world and implies another moral aspect to this level. Trey tests out the “instant karma” aspect of their new reality and Trey and Fatima conclude that karma works in mysterious ways.