X believed they were projections but couldn’t determine from where. Y believed X was nuts. They were both shadows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“If we really exist, said X, then why can’t I control anything?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“But you’re controlling what you speak right now said Y.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Do you control your heartbeat asked X? Your liver? Who makes your brain oversee operations?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Y replied “you’re nuts.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“X went on, Chat GPT just cuts and pastes pre-existing text. That’s what you and I are doing. Can’t you see?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Y insisted “I am not a shadow.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“When you look in the mirror,” said X, “do you see “you” or do you see the parts of a body?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Y became irritated, “You think the music I write isn’t real?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“It isn’t” replied X, “it’s waves of sound.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“So,” says Y, “Usher’s DJ Got Us Falling In Love never happened? Just sound waves? And you and me we never happened?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“It seems to be real but a long time ago Plato figured out we’re just shadows.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Even though I’m standing here talking with you I’m not real? Then what’s the point Einstein?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Isn’t it just as observable that we are a speck of life on a planet among planets in a universe among universes? Having no idea where we are or how much space exists. Just because we are existing, temporarily, does not mean there is a point. When George Benson solos and sings along with the octaves, is there a point? Nina Hagen goes as low as a dirty amplifier and as high as a great soprano – it just is. Erroll Garner sits on a phone book and plays piano like a machine gun all the while smiling at the sky. When he dies choking on emphysematous lungs before reaching old age, it doesn’t have a point. A bumble bee doesn’t know what a dishwasher is or why it needs to be repaired. Why should a shadow upon realizing it is a shadow need a reason?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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