Ceci n'est pas une image d'un pipe (This is not an image of a pipe)

Hello. I’m Cider

I’d like to, share with you, a thought experiment

We start with a story, about Daisy

Staring tensely, at her PC

Working for the machine

On a 3D, white bunny

With her mouse clicks, adding more ticks

To the hum of the machine

Soon Daisy daydreams, about extremes

Make it look real, like an ideal

Bunny by the machine

Like a spell, no one can tell

Homespun from a real bun, and that’s the fun

Living in the machine

What you see, reality, likely, a

Simulation

Swim through fabric homespun

If there is one, then there is a ton, conclusion:

Simulation

Technology, someday could be

Making what we see, copy reality

Creating just one, would be no fun

Countless fakes, ergo it makes this u

Not the real one

Making a cascade, sims that sims made

Are we prelim simsimsimsim?

Not the real one

Soon Daisy grants two, of Nick’s home brew

Life won’t implode

We can live in code

This is

Not the real one

What you see, reality, likely, a

Simulation

Swim through fabric homespun

If there is one, then there is a ton, conclusion:

Simulation

Her mind goes nuclear

With the fission of one question triggering two more

She wonders: if we have velveteen fur

Does it matter cause we can talk and hop?

Humm, and what if someone in the science business

Shows this is a designer fake?

And to leave this land build an inter-sim bus

That could take us out a level some way?

Soon she thinks maybe the Simulation Question conundrum

Is a disguised version of the question

What is life’s potential?

What you see, reality, likely, a

Simulation

Swim through fabric homespun

If there is one, then there is a ton, conclusion