Living through the birth of both AI and true virtual reality, the US government acknowledging UFOs UAPs, a global pandemic and multiple history-shaking wars, all coinciding with economic prosperity for some, and famine and mass displacement for others. There’s a lot going on, and it can feel destabilizing.
And for me, that destabilizing feeling has lately manifested itself in a strange way. Sometimes I just can’t escape the feeling that I’m looking through my eyes at some kind of projection. My mind keeps wandering back to a few years ago when a lot of tech people talked about the likelihood that our world is a simulation being run by a more advanced one. The chances of being alive during such a strange and momentous time feel so remote, that maybe our probabilistic brains are attracted to the simulation idea, because somehow it feels a more plausible idea among all this rapid change. I don’t remember ever having this feeling before a year or two ago. Now I feel it pretty often.
I don’t think we’re actually living in a simulation. Which makes this feeling even weirder when it hits me. The world just seems stranger, and change just seems to accelerate. It’s interesting to observe my mind as it integrates all this change, and the weird side effects, like fleeting suspicions toward reality itself.
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