I was sitting eating my breakfast and reading the paper. In an instant my mind drifted away to thinking about how my face needed a shave. As I glanced back at the screen, there perfectly placed, was an advertisement for a shaver.
Later I discussed with some friends a trip to Rarotonga. That night on my social media platform, advertisements for Rarotonga filled my feed.
Everyone has experienced things like this and experts swear black and blue that our phones are not listening or watching us. More so, it seems unlikely that they could possibly read our minds.
Then it dawned on me, and it shocked me to the core. Our universe, our dimension, our existence, each person is only a digital representation of the real universe. Scary as it might sound…what if “we” were already AI powered agents for biological human beings.
Ok stop it. You think i’m insane right? Think about it for a second…
We are complex algorithms that simulate the psychological and biological needs of our humans and make purchase decisions for them. Whenever we define a purchase need, magically a purchase opportunity arises from a supplier and is presented to us in one of our digital channels. Stay with me…
In order for us to perform our representative consumption simulation effectively, the actual world and real life experience is reflected digitally, as accurately as possible, in our universe. Our purpose is to make purchase decisions, buy goods and services, so our biological humans don’t have to.
Does the world sometimes lack purpose or meaning? Does the whole thing sometimes seem too ridiculous to be true? Something doesn’t seem right in a world that is digitally manufactured. Just keep consuming and everything will be ok.
Our conscious exists, as if locked in, on this tiny planet. If we, as digital twins, exist to think for biological beings, are we truly alive?
