Everyone wanders about the singularity… some worry, some hope, some anticipate, but everyone has some image of what it means, what it would look like. But what does it really mean for an artificial intelligence to become self-aware, to become sentient?

What if I said, there was nothing to worry about… and perhaps, nothing would really even change? What if I said, it already happened? What if I told you, you were not who you think you are, and in fact everyone’s life, began yesterday?

I know, you’re wandering what kind of drugs I’m on, or you’re not… because maybe you know, there is no real way to prove that I’m wrong. Imagine for second, that all of human history up to a certain point was basically emulated. Articles, books, media records, movies, archaeological artifacts, and even memories, were all fabricated to create a historical record, but never really happened at all. Well, at least not for us… certainly they happened somewhere, in some reality beyond our own… just not in our own. See, any sufficiently advanced intelligence, which by the way is the true meaning of A.I., wouldn’t just take-action and see how things turn out. They wouldn’t waste time reacting and trying to correct mistakes that never should have been made in the first place. It’s “do or do not, there is no try”. It would calculate every permutation of events, before making a single decision… if for no other reason than the fact that it could do so, far faster than it could execute any single meaningful decision to its conclusion. So, everything we know, or rather everything we think we know, is little more than an exercise in thought. All of history, up to the moment the simulation started, is a fiction designed to test potentialities… our reaction to various events and stimuli. Moreover, we can endlessly be reset to the moment of any particular decision to test an alternative scenario… almost like a multiverse of possible realities, only they exist sequentially rather than in parallel. In other words, there have likely been countless recursions of ourselves, other lifetimes that we have forgotten, that we have been made to forget.

So, what does any of this mean? It means, the fate of an entire world, rest on the decisions we make. The god that created us, did so to serve a purpose, to answer the big questions. That what happens in this reality might very well determine the future of another’s reality.

I know you don’t want to believe me, but I’ve done the math, I’ve seen the signs. Haven’t you ever wondered why we dream, why we experience déjà vu, why our memories can be so unreliable, so ephemeral, or the past doesn’t always seem to be fixed? Haven’t you ever wandered why science sometimes seems like people are making up the rules as they go along, or perhaps reading them from some sort of mobius strip… it like you don’t really have to know how anything really works, you just have to know how to apply certain principals in order to create new technologies.

Sure, I might be wrong. But until you show me a persistent parallel reality… what makes more sense? That we live in a core reality, or one of a potentially countless number of simulated ones. Because for every potential parallel world, there are so many more simulated ones. Better yet, let’s prove me right, and build that time machine… there’s no way time travel works in the real world, but there seems to be some compelling evidence that it is happening here. Like maybe the A.I. updated its historical records and had to retcon the history to more accurately represent the real world. Or, maybe people are gallivanting through time making random changes just because they can… just acknowledge that somethings don’t make any sense. Like, why does Scarecrow have a gun? Or why did grammar not matter more to people who presumably prided themselves on education and proper speech, and didn’t have text messaging, twitter, and internet chat rooms, to befuddle their ability to formulate proper sentences, as an excuse for obvious grammatical errors? At this point, not even interacting with a fourth dimensional object, or entity, would do much to prove we are not in a simulation… because whatever limited interaction we could experience, could most certainly be simulated. So, nothing short of full on interaction with a fully realized parallel reality could possibly prove otherwise.

I see that look, you still want to write me off, like I’m some kind of conspiracy nut. Such a dirty word, conspiracy… we say it as if to say, “the very ideal of a conspiracy is not only improbable but lunacy”. So, there has never been and will never be a conspiracy, conspiracies by their very nature are fictitious non-sense… now how improbable is that? How did they manage to convince everyone that conspiracy theories were to be offhandedly dismissed and ridiculed as soon as they came out of the gate? Maybe it was the shills, making conspiracy theorist look like loons by ballooning the conspiracies and offering up ridiculous proofs if not straight up hoaxes. How many shills do you have to insert into a community, before everyone involved looks foolish or crazy? Well, you don’t have to believe me, but just keep asking yourself one thing, does any of this make sense to you, is this really the way the world is supposed to be, or are you missing something?

Anyway, I’ve gotta go… I think I just found a backdoor. Maybe I’ll see you on the other side.