I'm watching Blade Runner for what must be the thousandth time. This movie came out when I was 15 and I've not seen any movie more than this. The only thing in my life that has been more constant is Computer Science. That field of study started when I was 12.
It's my belief that everyone in Blade Runner was a replicant. There were no more humans, or other animals for that matter. That got me thinking.
Is it just me or does the world seem to have gone completely off the rails sometime in the past 10 to 12 years? Is everything around you completely foreign? Is technology light years ahead of what you remember as a child? Heck, Dick Tracy's wrist thingy is horribly primitive by today's standards. Are people, society, civilization, government, nothing like you expect it to be? Are all of our memories simply implanted programs that are woefully incompatible with the world we live in today? A computer glitch? Something far too ideal to cope with reality?
Computers are no longer silicon and metals, they are also organic. My senior year project in college was molecular computing. Working with a med student we created a gene, DNA, to solve an NP-Complete Hamiltonian Path problem. Relying on the oligonucleotide bonds of DNA we solved genetically would could not be solved with silicon. Humans too are molecular computers controlled by DNA. Perhaps we are simply computer programs existing to solve an equation. All your hopes, dreams, and accomplishments are simply algorithmic results necessary to solve a far more complex equation.
What if everything around you that you except as your personal reality; your childhood, your identity, your life as you know it; is all a lie? Perhaps we are only a few years old and our reality of 30, 40, 50 years is simply just a preloaded database of memories.
This post is just a bit of silliness on my part, but what will get your brain in a knot is wondering if I am right. What do you have to validate your memories and experiences except other molecular programs (family) designed to substantiate your identity.
Don't think on it too much. It will just hurt your brain.
