Yes, You Are Living in a Simulation

be it from Mark Zuckerberg or apple or whoever there is a large push to erase the lines between our physical and our digital lives this push is often framed in future or abstract terms these are products in development in experimental Labs being constructed for some not too distant future but this is untrue we are

already in a metaverse one which has been snuck into our lives injected behind our retina with needles so narrow that we barely have felt the pain of each injection each day we inch further into entire simulation our interests and interactions are becoming hyperreal existing in a world which is slowly being blanketed over the one we can

touch and experience with true physical senses the metaverse is already here you are already in it

these are bold claims so to help us understand them in a concrete way we can begin with some literature simulacra and simulation is a 1981 book authored by Jean balar this book and its ideas served as the philosophical basis for the Matrix series of films but we'll talk more about that later simulacra and

simulation discusses the nature of reality in an increasingly commodified and media drench World specifically bodar discusses how media images create a new reality and systematically Stamp Out the already established World in which we live the book can be complex and Labyrinthian so badar simplifies much of his theory by pointing to an old

Parable if we understand this thought experiment and expand on it just slightly we can begin to understand our current predicament and believe me when I say it is a predicament indeed imagine there's a great Empire and a crazed cartographer creates a map of that Empire a fullscale one:1 topographical map on the map 1000t mountains are 1,000