Can anyone explain me the Tower ending? [OBVIOUSLY SPOILERS INSIDE]

[Eludium]

What really happens? It's my first time completing the game and I chose to ''betray'' Elohim simply because he wouldn't tell me who the hell am I, where the hell am I and what the hell is happening?
So I thought, surely the tower will provide me some answers...
...WELL IT DIDN'T.

A bunch of cables that woke up yet another robot. Why is that?
I guess the apocalypse came over the world after all as I've watched the credits until the end and saw how the world looked like.
But why was this robot created and got put to sleep? This all doesn't make any sense for me

[rachaelspooky]

The entire game is a series of puzzles and philosophical debates designed to test whether you, an AI, are advanced enough to simulate a human. Alex Drennan and her pals built this world so that AIs could be tested and improved over time, like a genetic algorithm. By ascending the tower, you prove that you are worthy of being called "human" and are removed from this virtual world and placed inside a real robot so that man's legacy may continue beyond our extinction.

[Eludium]

Hah, that's pretty sad ;0
Why did the world end though?

[Dusk of Oolacile]

Originally posted by Asteo600:

Hah, that's pretty sad ;0
Why did the world end though?

People knew that certain players won't read terminals, and died of pure sadness. All the work going wasted...

[Chastance]

Originally posted by Dusk of Oolacile:

Originally posted by Asteo600:

Hah, that's pretty sad ;0
Why did the world end though?

People knew that certain players won't read terminals, and died of pure sadness. All the work going wasted...

:slow clap:

[lothar229]

Originally posted by HSXP:

The entire game is a series of puzzles and philosophical debates designed to test whether you, an AI, are advanced enough to simulate a human. Alex Drennan and her pals built this world so that AIs could be tested and improved over time, like a genetic algorithm. By ascending the tower, you prove that you are worthy of being called "human" and are removed from this virtual world and placed inside a real robot so that man's legacy may continue beyond our extinction.

Great explanation. Right to the point.

[QwertyuiopThePie]

Originally posted by Asteo600:

Hah, that's pretty sad ;0
Why did the world end though?

It's explained in the terminals and audio logs. Well, not "Explained" as such, just heavily, heavily implied. Basically, some sort of disease wiped out all of humanity. They knew it was coming, but couldn't stop it, so the Institute for Applied Noematics built this facility, designed to last centuries, to train an AI worthy to be humankind's successor. The idea is that if humanity's creations never die, then humanity never really died either.

[Nameless One]

Originally posted by QwertyuiopThePie ¯\_(ツ)_/¯:

Originally posted by Asteo600:

Hah, that's pretty sad ;0
Why did the world end though?

It's explained in the terminals and audio logs. Well, not "Explained" as such, just heavily, heavily implied. Basically, some sort of disease wiped out all of humanity. They knew it was coming, but couldn't stop it, so the Institute for Applied Noematics built this facility, designed to last centuries, to train an AI worthy to be humankind's successor. The idea is that if humanity's creations never die, then humanity never really died either.

Also they gathered as much data possible about human history, literature, art, creation, etc. (explained with the 5 tetra bytes of data in MLN) so that humankind's accomplishments may last and "cheat" their exctintion through implementing all of that in conscious, humanesce AI's

[Rastro]

I know, necro, don’t care, wanted to say this; I would think that humanities successor wouldn’t have to be alone? Like leave the program running, see who else it downloads.

[Nazemec]

Originally posted by Rastro:

I know, necro, don’t care, wanted to say this; I would think that humanities successor wouldn’t have to be alone? Like leave the program running, see who else it downloads.

There's no other body to download anything into though, as far as we know.

[Rastro]

Originally posted by Nazemec:

Originally posted by Rastro:

I know, necro, don’t care, wanted to say this; I would think that humanities successor wouldn’t have to be alone? Like leave the program running, see who else it downloads.

There's no other body to download anything into though, as far as we know.

Yeah but they could have made more. In their own words "all the big stuff is done", which I would assume includes the android chasis. And we never know, maybe there were other iterations of the simulation running that we didn't see. Or the Android has the knowledge to make more of itself?

[Nazemec]

Originally posted by Rastro:

And we never know, maybe there were other iterations of the simulation running that we didn't see.

I think there's a text somewhere that refers to such a thing, "other installations (knowledge arks) for redundancy", something like that. The chassis was a "pet project" initially though, then it became incredibly big once the "end of humanity" was considered unavoidable. If I remember correctly of course. We just don't know if there are any other, anywhere. Maybe there are, maybe not.

[Robbie738]

In my mind anyway, the goal seems to be the manifestation of an AI that will question its own reality, rather than just do what it's told.

[Boink]

Descartes: "Cogito Ergo Sum"

The answer is that Humans died out, and attempted to answer their own questions about the universe by preserving their history / knowledge with a final epitaph to the universe. Could they create consciousness and thus justify their own existence (even when not existing)?

By creating a self-aware Mind (that wasn't insane, evil or psychopathic, thus all the Hell references) they showed wisdom to their 'children / successors'.

Tom Jubert is an interesting guy: https://tom-jubert.blogspot.com/

If you've not played it:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/231160/The_Swapper/


Was an early project of his. Similar themes and one of the best 2D puzzle games around.

[Pocahawtness]

Originally posted by HSXP:

The entire game is a series of puzzles and philosophical debates designed to test whether you, an AI, are advanced enough to simulate a human. Alex Drennan and her pals built this world so that AIs could be tested and improved over time, like a genetic algorithm. By ascending the tower, you prove that you are worthy of being called "human" and are removed from this virtual world and placed inside a real robot so that man's legacy may continue beyond our extinction.

And of course being completely human you will totally screw up the world again. WOO!