Douglas Hofstadter — I Am A Strange Loop
Simulation
Infinity Is Unprovable
The fact truth that you're a PS5 is unprovable from within Grand Theft Auto. You can also look at things like this, when was the last time you took on the essence of the universe to try and understand why you exist? I've played so many games in my life across all platforms and never once was the purpose of the game playing thousands of games across platforms. It's pretty simple. Expressive power is what gives rise to its incompleteness. So every moment is complete perfection as it is, yet it's perpetually on a journey incomplete. Eternally exploring all possibility. Here's the fractal shirt for I Am A Strange Loop.
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