The Egg

So since we are in the age of AI, me and the kids, my kids, we rewatched Matrix.

But then it's not something current, but there's a book, The Egg by Andy Weiss.

I read it recently.

And it's similar to Matrix, where we are talking about being in a simulated environment and one consciousness.

He definitely does.

If you want proof that he isn't just a human calculator writing survival thrillers, you have to look at The Egg.

Oh, The Egg, yes.

That is the, the critical counterweight to his blockbuster novels.

For sure.

It's logic, tech, and Vegas crime.

But then we have the other short story the guide mentions, The Egg.

Ah, The Egg.

This is perhaps his most widely read piece of writing on the entire internet.

Really?

We look at this catalog.

We have Randomize, which is pure cold logic and tech.

We have The Egg, which is pure philosophical spirituality, and we have Cheshire Crossing, which is pure fantasy.

In the backdrop of reality, these baby faces can remind us about the innocence every human is capable of.

Perhaps one of the lessons from the egg theory is to remind people of the power of a situation to turn us into who we are.

This is not to absolve anyone of their wrongdoing or take away from the gravity of their actions, but a chance to shed light on the fact that a lot of who we are is quite simply circumstance, and that we might be better able to prevent future atrocities if we're able to foresee the circumstances that lead to them.

This was, in large part, the focus of the now infamous Stanford Prison Experiments.

I urge you to read into it yourself.

But these studies do demonstrate, and quite reassuringly so, that there may be more bad circumstances than bad people in this world.

The egg theory also need not only be about righteousness or evil, it can also be about looking at life through the eyes of others.

Perhaps we would think of life differently if we could see ourselves through the eyes of a loved one.