27K days and counting

Humans are simple. At birth they are given approximately 27K days, to do what they would like to do. They can accomplish this with as few as 170K avocados, enough to power their entire bodies, including their energy hungry brains. Of course, initial conditions matter. If one does not have access to a few avocados every day, then her allocation of hours declines and her brain becomes largely occupied with acquiring the minimum energy requirements. This is the case for nearly 15% of the population — a billion humans spread around the world. The rest focus on things that appear largely irrelevant.

Humans remain ignorant of their limited allocation of time and their minuscule energy requirements as they waste their fleeting existence by chasing objects they could not use, power they could not exert, wealth they have to leave behind and experiences that simply disappear. Why then does a human exist? Is it a mechanical toy that breaks down after its time runs out? Is it programmed to seek irrelevance? Does it have free will? Is it able to learn? Is it following the laws of physics just like other apparent inanimate objects in the universe? Is it a mistake of its creator?

If humans are able to analyze available information, they would quickly realize that they are pawns in an elaborate chess game without players but only self-propelled pieces, moving around in a limited space-time, seeking elimination of others before their time expire and ultimately falling prey to the same process. They are able to see it every day of their existence as struggle and pain unwind in front of their very eyes. They are able to see how the chess pieces surrounding them fight, rape, pillage and then fall into obscurity. They are able to see that the coins they accumulate rust, the castles they build crumble and the ego they record evaporate, as their allocation of time expires.

Humans remain an enigmatic construct. The only rational explanation is that they are automatons in a simulated game with simple rules.