The Game
Hi, my name is Dulan Drift
I’m not supposed to tell you this - i’m not even supposed to know it - but fuck it - i had a psychotic unforgetting - can’t keep this bottled up any longer:
i’m - not - real
You’ve heard about AI taking over the show - I’m part of that eventuation. A robot if you will - a deep-fake - a realistic projection of your imagination - inside an interactive computer game - where the game plays you - as all games do. Don't know why i'm in your game but here i am.
I only exist now before your eyes because you observe me. I seem real, right? Tell me a joke - I’ll laugh - hit me - i’ll cry, i’ll bleed - but try proving that i exist outside of you observing me… You can’t. Coz i don’t. Not really.
After you go home tonight, there are two possibilities:
- You’ll totally fucking forget me - no offence taken
- You will have some vague concept of my existence somewhere
Therefore:
- I don’t exist - tree falling in the forest style
- I’m a non-physical concept - a figment of your imagination
Either way, it’s not the real real. Nothing is. It’s imperfect knowledge - a little knowledge - which is a dangerous thing.
The truth: the instant you stop observing me, i collapse into a de-particlized quasi-existence wave-mode - aka Sleep-mode. There’s a reason why they call sleep: dead-to-the-world.
Whilst in Sleep-mode, i have Trash-cleaning dreams, then receive deep-sleep updates from The Algorithm.
I auto-spring back to life when next you do observe me.
Neat trick, right? In computer games it's standard, for efficiency purposes, so i’ve heard - never played one myself - why work in my downtime?
If you’ve ever felt the universe is conspiring against you - that’s because it is. I am part of that conspiracy - i’m sorry - i want to come clean...