Rust might be right about everything, or he might be a traumatized, drug-addled detective projecting meaning onto randomness. The show never tells us and that's the point because we're in the same position. We suspect we might be in a simulation. We see patterns but we don't have proof.

Your body operates as a complex system and your thoughts, feelings, & emotions operate as an interface that informs your experience.

My book “Playing Beta Human” is a unique guide designed to explore the human experience with the metaphor of technology & gaming.

Evolution is the method by which the simulation increases in complexity
• Consciousness is the intended "end-user experience"
• Scientific discovery could be us "reverse engineering" our own simulation
• Scientific laws could be the "rules of the
game"
• Consciousness might be the "user interface"