> Similarly, Google's machine-intelligence guru Ray Kurzweil has suggested that "maybe our whole universe is a science experiment of some junior high-school student in another universe".

And for the other universe, who's experiment is it? I don't think the question matters. What matters is to acknowledge that we don't know and we have no way of knowing, it's the most urgent thing to do, in order for humanity to reach its "golden age". We'll get here eventually, since it's about the very survival of mankind. It's our "golden path", for those who get the reference.