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It’s Not Free Will

What if free will is just an illusion, and the life we live is a game within a game? Across centuries, sacred texts and mystics promise enlightenment, yet the contradictions of existence remain. This essay confronts those tensions, questioning the narratives we inherit and what it truly means to be free.

The Synthetic Dream: Data Instead of Reality

We’re living through a quiet inversion — a moment when the map has overtaken the territory, and data has become the dominant expression of what we call real. The human story, long mediated through art, language, and memory, is now increasingly shaped by algorithms, proxies, and synthetic simulations of experience. What began as tools to extend our understanding have become the filters through which that understanding must now pass. And so we find ourselves adrift in a new kind of labyrinth — one built not of walls, but of reflections.

Parallels: On the Repetition That Reveals Us

There are moments when life feels like a quiet déjà vu — as if the world keeps rearranging itself into familiar shapes. What was thought to be new begins to resemble what came before. You might sense that something unseen is tracing patterns through your days, repeating them not to confine you, but to help you see what remains hidden in plain sight.