BladeRunner

I've been thinking lately about a website I stumbled on once and it seems to be resonating more lately as I read one of Philip K. Dick's more popular novels "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?". I really dug "Blade Runner" when I first saw it (and again in its most recently released to theaters director's cut), a movie based on Dick's novel. And the more I think about it as I read his book, I believe that we all may be robots.

Now hold on just a minute and let me explain...By the way, this thought has been bumping around my head since I was about 12, terrible stuff to think about, but it still haunts more people's darker recesses than we all might like to admit.

This website on The Simulation Argument
, portends, with multiple sources, that we all may indeed (or our perceptions, mainly mine) be entirely simulated. If this were to be true, however, I would be a rare instance of the self-aware android or simulation. This is definitely an uncomfortable assumption but not a strange one given my generation's exposure to The Matrix trilogy from the Wachowski brothers. However, the very realization that such may be true (being a self-aware simulation) is probably good evidence that I, and we, am/are not, which may be a logical fallacy or circular reasoning, but, to set my mind at ease it may be good enough for me.

Don't we all live in the circular reasoning world of constant justification, regardless? This is the paradox of existence in the face of our imminent, and almost always unknown time of, demise.

Here's to maybe all of us being robots and not knowing it––or not wanting to admit it, at least. Cheers!

-jp

ps Mad Respect to Bob Kubachek for letting us all know what kind of things we were to begin with. Safe journeys in Wyoming Bobb-o. You are missed.