We have real archaeology… digging around in the dirt.  How about digital archaeology?  The first computer programs.  The first computer programming concepts or constructs?  The first games?

What if the first ones were the most advanced ones?  What if that which created life was the most advanced algorithms known in the universe?  What if the past requires the future and the future requires the past?

What if the digital philosophy guys (Fredkin, etc) are right and we do in fact live in a computer?  It’s likely that we live in some kind of informational construct of sorts as most everything seems to some extent to be able to be broken down into multidimensional math/physics/philosophy, etc.

If we do live in such a construct, what is the possibility of accessing the substrate such that we can create an even more fantastical reality and do away with the pain and mundanity of “normal” life?  All life as fantasy?

If human intelligence is inherently artificial and organic, and possibly both, then searching for the origin of all that is certainly seems a worthy challenge.  What if the entire universe or multiverse is inside of a higher ordered construct that is managed by higher beings or aspects of nature that yield it to be as such?  So many stars… yet there don’t seem to be terribly many collisions… perhaps there are but perhaps they happen for a reason that we can not appreciate.  Perhaps it is for us to learn.