Discussing virtual realities / simulated environments today and been wondering if t1oo will follow the pattern of legendary SF stories like Simulacron-3 and The Matrix and involve the protagonists learning they have always existed within a simulation.  The ‘City of Light’ simulation being just an interior level of the greater simulation.  

It would also be an easy way out for them – everyone who has ‘died’ in the simulation is either transferred to ‘the real world’ or another simulacrum.  

Addressing quantum universes as endless simulacrums?

Bah.