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This Thing is Hallucinating your Reality

At least it is hallucinating mine!

Adesh Acharya
3 min readJun 24, 2023
Photo by Mason Kimbarovsky on Unsplash

I am sick of confusions. I want to really see the reality.

No, I am not talking about metaphysical reality where I question whether god or the physical world really exists.

Nor am I talking about a spiritual or scientific reality where I ask if I can really move that tree with my energy.

I ask if I can see myself and the world in terms of day-to-day whats and whys.

I am concerned about the actions and the reasons behind those actions. Of: my body, mind, the tree outside, the people around, dogs, rainfall, birds, lake, computers.

Right now I don’t want to know about the realities of blood, synapses, photosynthesis, functionalism, electrons, etc. I want to know of ways in which I can see the reality of myself and the world in terms of what we do and why. From the behavioral level — let’s say.

I want to know if the person sitting on the street outside for three hours is really a criminal. I want to know if the idea of AI replacing humans is not really a genius marketing masterstroke. I don’t want to know if my blood is really red. Or god is really dead.

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