We assume there has to be a reason for existence... that's actually not necessary, sufficient, or mandatory. It's just what
we think, and we could be wrong...
However, this is an age-old question, with a myriad of other questions and implications depending on the direction one takes to explore it.
There's Plato's Allegory of the Cave.
There's Descarte's "evil demon"
By extension, there's Brain in a Vat theory,
By further extension, string theory and simulation theory.
Etc...
What's funny though, is we may never know because we don't have the means to actually find out, only the faculty to speculate. We don't have a way to break away from the system (this existence) in order to assess this system completely and absolutely.
Our senses our limited, our faculties and interpretations from our faculties are limited, our instruments are limited, so we never get the full picture of "reality."
So what then, if we cannot know? Live your best life (whatever that means to you).
And when we are able to break certain modes of conditioning, we can see the world as we wish. It still is what it is despite what we think or know about it.
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