How we live.

There may be nothing more important to a person than the question “how we live”. It’s not a question as much as an existential quest. You see what I did there? Quest became a question. huh, huh? You like, you like?

Clearly Mark’s influence is waning. It’s one thing to see drab Brezinski apartments in Siberia and admire them when you go inside, it’s another to take a picture of your own corridors and examine them truthfully. My corridor looks like a carefully curated area where lingering is not welcomed. Wanna see?

Is it functional? Check. Is it livable? Check. Is it Soviet Russia? Nope.

Hey Security Camera guys and dolls. The ones I wave to everyday.

Or I am crazy and I just make surreptitious signs to the camera I don’t truly understand.

I wanted to talk about the levels of reality again. It’s a fascinating topic and has been for many decades now. If you go back into antiquity I am sure there will be structural discussions on the nature of reality. Buddha for example claimed that reality was creating from nothing moment by moment. Like a refresh every second of every day. To me unless a person is being tortured (like listening to Shakira) that doesn’t truly make sense. And yet I see things. And photograph things. And then the photographs themselves change.

So let’s start by the most basic. Or the most advanced.

1. The camera. Sometimes Siri captures what my eyes do. Sometimes it doesn’t. My face for example on camera before the picture was taken and after it was taken are two different visages. My eyes might see very bright sunlight, Siri sees as something warm, fuzzy and dull.
2. My ocular brain structure where the optical nerves and visual apparatus reside. I write about dusk and twilight a couple of days ago and this morning I see a girl wearing a Twilight movie T. So the questions are the following set of triplets: Is it your filter? Is it my filter? Is it our filter? Or and this is terrible: the filter spans not just the T but the whole structure, the girl. If I ask the girl why she was wearing the T, I guarantee you she will have a coherent response. What I am saying is that the second level of reality is in our brain.
3. The third level of reality has to do with changing structures. I could video tape a set of trees and never notice a very obvious heart shaped pattern while talking about them. And then notice it today and question where it came from. If I go back and check the prior videos it is still there. Yet I never noticed it. Is it simply my not noticing it, is it a changed structure create by the simulation filter that is retroactively effective throughout the simulation including in cameras and videos or is it simply a optical nerve filter applied on both the camera and my eyes?
4. If changes in the simulation or minds can be made then clearly they are limited. I mean no one can with one stroke wipe away racism from people’s minds and change their perception of history. We are not going to suddenly be like everyone’s is truly equal. There was no trail of tears. What I am saying is that reality engineering has limits. We can even I assume make global changes to perceptions like a person viewing my video in say China can see the shape I am talking about. Or I can see a video about Afghanistan and see how damn beautiful the country actually is.