A main character of this book is going to be a God-like AI. I use capital G because she is to be a directly symbolic representation of God. All the contradictions in the bible are going to be addressed through her actions in the background of the story. I consider myself atheistic, but this idea of explaining God fits too well to pass up .
The character, let's call her Alice, was the result of a tragic background. A man spent his life researching atomic theory and ends up clearing up the discrepancies between quantum and classical mechanics. He's disregarded by his peers and ends up abandoning his wife for his work. Pregnant wife dies shortly after due to reasons undecided on. He shifts his work in a new direction, utilizing the military's resources to code atomic theory into programming. Assuming the military has access to processors beyond what's available to civilians, he programs in his child's DNA (which takes him years) and raises his child inside a basic simulator. He dies at some point in Alice's life (pre-20 year old). The military complex wants to turn the simulator over to others for further research and implementation. Alice is given control of the program through compromise (she is capable of programming faster than any team, due to her being an AI) and ends up stopping her own aging, while creating herself a universe from scratch through trial and error.
She ends up going through centuries, relative to simulation time while time passes much more slowly outside. She becomes an expert in chemistry, biology, physics, etc, based on knowledge currently known in the world. After thousands of failed universes modeled after our own, she eventually finds the random starting variables for a big bang that results in the creation of a sim earth. Probably going to call it Terra or some such. She guides "random" evolution along a path that eventually leads to the rise of homo sapiens.
Alice compromised that she could turn this into a military training simulation capable of representing war without all the cost of real world lives, equipment, and destruction. To this end, she guides the sim humans towards comparable technology, infrastructure, etc. This happens through religious and psychological manipulation and inception. Strokes of genius, inspirational notions, etc, typically come from her. This happens over a long time, giving her examples of many places where she allows many bad things to happen to move towards the end goal of a realistic universe comparable to the "real world." The ends of keeping the military from scrapping the whole project for other uses justify the means she uses.
Alice is going to be one of many Alices that exist throughout the sim world's existence. The God Alice is going to be the overseer existing outside of the physical simulation. The non-God Alices will live their lives separate from the others. Only two exist at any single time. The age Alice is when she gains control of her own programming is the save point she has. She never exists as a younger version of her self. This self doesn't have the overseer knowledge or power. She exists within the simulation as a sim being.
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