Who am I in this game: character or scenery?

I recently watched the movie "Free Guy". Overall, it's kind of like "The Matrix" and "Ready Player One".

But one idea hooked me there: what if most of us are NPCs?

Brief plot of "Free Guy"

The man lives through Groundhog Day, but then he suddenly meets a girl in dark glasses. When he put on these glasses, he saw augmented reality and realized that he was in a computer game. And his whole world is a simulation. Moreover, he is an NPC who, thanks to artificial intelligence, has developed so much that they began to confuse him with characters controlled by living people.

I don't want to spoil, but this NPC got so insolent that the owner of the game (in our physical world) had to reboot the server in order to reset everything and return the game to its original form.

Why not a biblical story? Here you have the end of the world and the second coming and eternal paradise on a separate server.

Who am I in this game

Naturally, I asked myself the question: if our world is a computer simulation, then how to understand who I am in this game, an NPC or a character controlled by the player?

My idea is that people who live very typical lives are NPCs. They are programmed in advance to the easiest possible lifecycle: birth -> school -> university -> standard job -> mortgage -> family -> kids -> grandkids -> death.

On the other hand, people who break any patterns and live non-typical lives are more likely to be players. Take Elon Musk, who juggles this world like it belongs to him? He is definitely a good player, not an NPC.

Thanks to entrepreneurship, my life is full of unexpected moments, unpredictability, difficult decisions and other not quite typical things. Of course, I'm not even close to Elon, but for all that, I'm more of a player than an NPC 😎