I think the answer lies into what we want to make it. There are a lot of possible "realities/outcome" to this "problem" and it's only up to "us" to decide how things will happen (or are happening). since all of them are approximately equally possible.
What you guys are doing is like trying to predict what is going to happen in a science-fiction movie with common sense. You can manage to make a good guess but, in truth, it could have been anything the author decided it would be.