Rainbow Bones
Burning Reality
Posted by Paul Ricciardi (Rock Hill, United States) on 24 November 2006 in Abstract & Conceptual.
"They can't tell the difference. To an artificial mind, all reality is virtual. How do they know that the real world isn't just another simulation? How do you?"
"I know I'm not dreaming now because I know what it's like being in a dream."
"So dreaming lets you know that reality exists."
"No - only that my mind exists. I'm not sure about anything else."
That's a quote from the animated short Matriculated from the DVD Animatrix. I quite like the short and I quite like the quote. I've seen that short a good number of times and that short section of dialouge (actually that's the largest section of dialouge in the mostly silent short) always make me think about my surrounding differently. What is reality? How do we know what's real? Why do we have to follow the boundaries of what we think is possible. For all we know, we aren't even living in the real world, why not live as if anything is possible?
The sticker warns against fire in the lightbulbs. Obviously I didn't pay much attention to it. I'm not sure what I'm conveying here, which is unusual for me, I'm not sure what it's meant to be. It just feels right in its own surreal sort of way. And that's enough for me some days.
