Future humans, displaced from their own lives by social media, the internet, and television, are merely observing rather than participating in life. Even acts of creation have been outsourced to artificial intelligence. Exploring, innovating, and creating are no longer necessary for humans—nor is leaving the house. The new artificial forms are the true participants in life, roaming, documenting, and broadcasting both real and artificial moments to humans. Humans no longer know the difference between real and artificial, nor do they know the difference between observing life and living it.
Cavefish Is a general word used to describe more than 200 species of fish found in caves throughout the world. From constantly living in total darkness, they have unusual adaptations such as blindness. In other words, they have evolved to be blind because they live in caves and don’t need to see. In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, we are like cavefish. Darkness represents ignorance and shadows on the walls represent glimpses of reality, but not the whole reality, only the superficial truth. The only thing cavefish / people can do is observe what is not real. Evolution allowed cavefish to let go of what no longer serves any purpose. Perhaps one day we will let go of our ability to perceive the superficial and live only by what is real.
