MandoV/science fiction

Unpluging from the real Matrix
From the page: "'The first step is to start distrusting our own thoughts, habits, and assumptions about the way things are. We need to become aware of the manner in which everyday social constructs, norms, rules, and conventions are basically set against us, that is, against the freedom of the individual. But be warned: these steps to lucidity are indistinguishable from the onset of schizophrenia, which is perhaps why "schizophrenia" is so prevalent in modern day society.' "

PKD was not the first science fiction writer to envision the possibility that the Divine might be a machine

-this same notion appears in a story by the late Isaac Asimov (The Final Question) in which a series of increasingly powerful computers are asked how to reverse the entropic heat death of the universe. Each answers with the same complaint: "insufficient data." After the final heat death of the universe, the final computer-Cosmic AI-in hyperspace arrives at the answer after untold aeons, and it is "Let there be Light!"