What if every time we think about something, we aren’t remembering it or describing it, but actually creating it in that moment. Like our brain spins up a small simulation of a perfect version of that thing, and for a brief second it exists. It’s like a Platonic ideal coming into being through thought. And then I started thinking about AI, and how it’s kind of like a physical version of that same process. A real structure that tries to hold and simulate those ideals in material form. But the thing is, Platonic ideals aren’t real. They don’t exist in the world. They’re mental constructs that we project onto reality, and they can’t actually hold up when you try to make them real. That’s where everything starts to break. Flaws always emerge in anything that tries to be perfect. It’s built into the system. So when we turn those mental simulations into ideologies, when we start believing they are reality, they start pulling the world toward them in this weird retro-causal way. They try to manifest themselves, but because they come from our egos and not from reality itself, they always end up unstable, and dangerous.
