Are you living in a computer simulation?
What I am, I don't know. I am the simulacrum of myself.
My life is a movie set. These people, they all think this is real, but it's not.
Life had become a reproduction: it was not the real thing.
The most embarrassing part of the film is that the new problem posed by simulation is confused with its classical, Platonic treatment ... The Matrix is surely the kind of film about the matrix that the matrix would have been able to produce.
You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life-- a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real.
Cyberspace is an accident of the real. Virtual reality is the accident of reality itself.
A record is something that isn't real or true. It's like cinema. It's a construction of something hyper-real and surreal and unreal all at the same time. You make a space that doesn't really exist. One of the big joys of being in this line of work is building the recorded versions of the songs.
