I have a question that just struck me when listening to Penny talking about the origin of us Earth Humans.The main (or last) engineers of us seem to...I have a question that just struck me when listening to Penny talking about the origin of us Earth Humans.The main (or last) engineers of us seem to be the Zha ami who you say made us from their own DNA and that of Homo Erektus.Now where does the Neanderthals fit into this?  The Iberian peninsula is said to have been their last outpost in Europe, and there is a people there that has greater physical strength than most, Also the Portuguese are quite hairy. Is their DNA part of us? Show more

"Sentient enough to see the programming, to understand they were sims in a matrix."

This still confuses me some. Maybe I am not sentient enough.
If it is all a simulation in a Matrix, does anything matter and how much control do we have over our "lives"?

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