SHASHANK UPPALIKE
Can interactive experiences
expand the horizons of our perceived reality?
Can they keep us awe- inspried
in the realms of our own making?
I've felt it.
And I'd spend a lifetime
crafting such surreal moments,
rich in emotional embrace,
intellectual inquiry
and instinctual play.
This is what I stand for.
For all sentient beings
seek acknowledgement of their individual existences.
Perhaps this is the way I seek mine.
Popular media that move me
Throughout history, humans have tried to document their ideas, visions, chaos and clarity.
It's heart wrenching to think that we may never know them all.
But while we're still miraculously here,
we still have a chance to feel more alive.
Here are just a few pieces of media that have moved me,
to choose this path that I'm now on.
Books
SAPIENS: A BRIEF HISTORY OF HUMANKIND
THE ALMANACK OF NAVAL RAVIKANT
Movies
CONTACT
THE MAN FROM EARTH
TUMBBAD
TV Series
ATTACK ON TITAN
BLUE EYE SAMURAI
DARK
NARUTO
Youtube content
KURZGESAGT
MELODYSHEEP
Videogames
A WAY OUT
FIREWATCH
FLORENCE
INSIDE
The human side
Sometimes I wish it were possible to metaphysically enter animated universes.
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Listening to music paints fictional visions in my mind.
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I wish time travel to the past were possible, if at all to merely spectate at actual historic events, and possibly uncover secrets lost in time.
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I am fascinated by night time; when nobody's around and all one sees is proof of human civilisation.
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I believe that the next ginormous leap for humanity would be
the telepathic unification of multiple human minds, a state where each human will truly feel what it was like to be alive from the perspective of every other human ever.
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free will exists, but it's probability is probably deterministic.
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Love is the answer, always has been.