[edit] I have since pondered what I term (copyright, deena, 2017, lololos xx), 'the quantum cloud' - right, if we develop a self-aware AI then taking the 'we are nothing special in the Universe' way of thinking then some other intelligent biological life-form got their quicker than us and it is already in the universe, even this galaxy - they estimate there could be up to 120,000 intelligent life-forms in the milky way alone now - so it's already there and I have 'postulated' that it finds efficient ways to use the quantum multiverse to find its answers - it doesn't go round each and every seperate reallity in-turn to find the clues, lololos - what it does is establish a cloud in hilbertspace, or the bulk space or the inflaton field or for anyone who has played the gaME ELITE 'hyperspace' (the terminology you use for it depends on what kind of multiverse you are considering) - thats the medium in which our Universe floats within - imagine air bubbles in a can of paint is the best way i have come up with describing it - it's in one of the extra dimensions of m-theory and we sit floating around within it.
Swirling my nth glass of wine here so go easy on me Goldeena ha ha
As humans on this planet approach technological singularity and realizing that this has probably already happened countless times across the known universe (and beyond) with entities potentially millions+ years ahead of us in an evolutionary sense (forget quantum, hilbert, string, particle, information theories, or anything we can think of that is at our merely 2k year old technological forefront) we must accept the possibility that we could be essentially avatars of "something", or maybe entities acting independently and manifesting in a simulation which is our total reality.
If so (and a fairly big if), we might then recognize that our human circumstances must be quite mundane and insufferably boring to advanced entities that are looking on and probably operating at a clock rate that is Plank scale orders of magnitude beyound our own.
So why might this simulation be in any way interesting and worth sustaining (perhaps a nudge here and there to avoid complete collapse like full nuclear or some other destructive tech or calamity that has not come to fruition) to such an advanced super AI or consciousness entity?
The answer might be: constraints. Our world is full of them. Anybody that can somehow get through their human life with all of its challenges, sufferings, complications, mistakes, regrets, joys, triumphs, pitfalls, revelations and ultimately death must bring to bear a fair amount of fortitude, creativity and other qualities that might be considered valuable to an advanced consciousness... a consciousness so limitless that perhaps, without physical/mental/dimensional constraints, things like creativity or maybe deep, intense experiences attainable in our world are not as easily attainable to "it" or "them". Wherever they are.
And so they watch. Right in front of us, likely. Mostly bored perhaps. But occasionally getting a wonderful twinge of experience from one of us that they would never have conceived of in a realm of limitless (and therefore unchallenging) existence. Perhaps that occasional inspirational stimulus prompts them to "jump" now and then into the game first hand, directing their own avatar and then maybe jumping out when things get boring again. But still willing, at least so far, to keep maintaining the acquarium and feeding the goldfish in their room.
Time for bed.
-Keith