Meaninglessness of “Time” and Reality of Reincarnation

Black Mirror (Season 7) : Hotel Reverie — A Review

Black Mirror (Season 7) - Hotel Reverie — A Review by Magicthreadworks

I was about to name this blog, “Lover from the past” and suddenly realised that if we are able to create a technology which can help us simulate a time and place in VR, we can save our progress just like a game and the Narrative Arc is not fixed but is AI generated in responds to the user’s action. We can enter a story from any point and literally live thousands of years in the mere span of a day. In one of the planets in Rick & Morty there is a game arcade which lets you do just this. There are many more references of such a technology in other shows as well — The whole concept of “Westworld” is of an amusement park which you enter as yourself, in real life , and then the game develops based on your interaction with AI characters which look human. If you take a bird’s eye view of this concept, the same thing happens in “Pantheon” where the main character then can choose the simulated reality she wants to live in.

The Concept of Reincarnation

If you believe old scriptures to be true and have faith in the concept of reincarnations — this is precisely what we are doing in our actual real lives as well. We take multiple births, in each birth we have different lessons and understand a bit more or less about the nature of the universe, the loop continues till we reach enlightenment and eventually find “Moskha” — freedom from this loop of life and death. We already have AI, creating such simulations is very possible, and eventually, as the time becomes flexible in simulation, we can live our multiple lifetimes in a single birth itself. Of course, this is a hypothesis but a damn fascinating one!

Narrative Arc

The concept is amazing, a popular actor agrees to rebuild a famous old movie “ Hotel Reverie”, where all the characters of old films get simulated by AI — only the main actor enter the world with VR. Now if the actor sticks to the original story all characters will behave as in the original plot. As mishaps happen, the actor gets stuck in VR and eventually falls in love with an AI.

San Juniper is one of the favorite episodes of Black Mirror for me, as it has a happy ending. Apparently, this one too finally makes two lovers meet in some way and form. I would like to believe as Anna Hathway’s character says in Interstellar “Love is one thing that transcends place and time”.

Read about other episodes of Black Mirror too: Black Mirror S07E02 - Bete Noir