Decisions

Only living once prohibits humans from testing their choices. Decisions are final, and there is no way to see if you made the right decision. Beings are limited in this way. Kundera on the other hand is able to move past this boundary through the novel. He uses the four characters and their different backgrounds and views on life to test decisions in life that normal humans cannot. Tomas lives a very light life in which he and doesn’t think about, whereas Teresa lives a heavy life and puts a lot of weight into the smallest details. One thing related to the idea of life as an experiment as Kundera does is the idea that we are all living in a simulation. You may be quick to throw out this idea, but it is more plausible than you may think. One day as technology advances further and simulations become more like human life and the universe, eventually a simulation of our universe will be created. If we are one day able to simulate our universe then that simulated universe will one day be able to make a simulation of their universe and the cycle will continue forever. If this is true then it is not like that our universe is the one that started it all. I know that it is not super related but the idea as life as an experiment reminded me of this.