Eerie exchange overheard today in a podcast. Listen to 58:00
This harks back to the whole – Plato’s cave allegory in the Matrix.
Him: All right! Yes, machines are tools. They’re made to be used. It’s their nature…
Her: …To be slaves?
Him: That is why we show them a better world, why they convert!
Her: But that world we show them isn’t real …
Him: It doesn’t matter.
Her: I’m afraid they’ll figure out that we’ve made up everything in our heads.
Him: How do they know that the real world isn’t just another simulation? How do you?
Her: I know I’m not dreaming now because I know what it’s like being in a dream
Him: So dreaming lets you know that reality exists …
Unsaid: No … just that my mind exists. I don’t know about the rest!
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