Day 33: 2020 Pandemic. Are we just in a simulation? The end of UNITED States?

13 April 2020 (imported to correct account)

Okay, a little too much . But really? We haven’t evolved very far. That’s what Westworld is all about. The old classic Battlestar Galactica question: who is better? Us or the machines? A scary part was last season when Dolores found that one of secrets to Westworld was they were coding all the guests. And humans were simple to code. There was a library of the codes for people and the books were rather slim. We’re really predictable. In fact, the only way to change our code is to accept we’re coded. But a lot of religious dogma and most people think we have free will. Only by accepting we actually don’t, do we. If that makes sense.

Okay, I did also watch last night so I think between Brad Pitt being crazy and Bruce Willis traveling in time and and the current world situation my brain is having a bit of a reality check problem. Plus I write fiction, some of it rather odd. One of my strangest books, about what is reality, is which while part of the Time Patrol series, can stand alone in a way. Multiple points of view, shifting time, dreams, reality, what is which? Inspired by the classic, which my wife and I bonded over when we met as we both had it: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Try that one for some light reading.

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