Binary Choice
Doubts in the minds of other users began to grow because of a thought which had been conceived along with Detaremu and his bird story. Nothing around is real, every world was created by man, even the ones made by the artificial intelligence were limited by humanity and its capabilities. Human explorers were in awe of the worlds and universes they constantly rediscovered, yet they never went higher than human imagination. Do the universe and other planets look as they are imagined by people? What if stars we observe at night are not suns that endlessly and patiently shine through space? What if they are but a cluster of dots, painted on a canvas?
A few people suddenly realised that the truth is out there. That the true life exists outside. Real things that are new to man. New things, waiting for us to be discovered. A real machine that drives us forward – the infinite universe and the finite human existence. The simulated immortality crumbled and no longer made sense underneath the crushing weight of this thought. The simulation is a death equal to the one outside.
There was no need to work anymore, all the most pressing issues were solved; The traffic ceased to exist, the air became clear again, people no longer had to consume organic matter. They lived their own lives inside Construct and so did the nature around their docking stations. Yet, even the most delicious food becomes bland after some time, and so doubts soon crawled into the minds of some of the simulation’s inhabitants. Is this really the humanity’s greatest achievement? Is someone whose life is sustained only through tubes and cables still a human? Is it even possible to leave the simulation which we all became part of so easily? A seed of disagreement slowly began to sprout in the minds of several individuals. And so Detaremu took a group of users of similar thoughts and decided to take a leap into the unknown, just as his bird friend had taken before. They went outside, facing everything that was waiting beyind Construct, betting their life on freedom. One day, his tribe left the simulation to keep searching.