'Toda la vida es sueño, y los sueños, sueños son'

"All life is a dream, and dreaming as well." — Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-1681)

There is a remarkable syndrome called Charles Bonnet, in which visual loss is accompanied by hallucinations which "fill in" what the eye fails to deliver to the brain.

Recently Sora and its ilk finally crossed the "uncanny valley" such that they generate video indistinguishable from reality by even the most expert eyes.

What do these things tell us?

Well, they tell me that it is becoming increasingly clear that reality is a construct, what we make of the world we think we live in.

We're not just passing through.

If this is the case, then it should be quite reasonable to believe that we can indeed create our future, just as it appears we create our present and past, with memories changing each time we recall them.

It seems to me that there's a quiet, unstoppable revolution in our thinking taking place, which is going to result in an entirely different view of ourselves in the world.

I predict we will take an increasing role directing and framing our lives — not so much in what we choose to do but, rather, in how we choose to view and value what we do.

FunFact: Sora ascended to #1 in the Apple App Store soon after its September 29, 2025 release and has remained there ever since.

Fair warning: there goes the rest of your (so-called?) life.