Megan, we have agreed that we live in some sort of shared reality.

So what is that?

And does that exist anymore?

Oh my goodness.

Did it ever exist?

These are the questions of being human.

Real is what has an impact, what makes a difference in our lives.

I'm so interested to learn more about how things like reality television and influencers and deep fakes and even magic, how they all impact the way that we trust.

What are your findings when it comes to how our brains respond?

If something makes you feel a really strong emotion, that's typically a time to pause and kind

of double check. this true or not.

Andrea a. I is getting so advanced and so much more integrated into our everyday lives.

How do we navigate as our digital and physical worlds collide?

If you were an urban planner basically for the internet,

what would you advise us to do?

I think you're going to see different kinds of resistance

because that's the thing about a city is that you know what does it mean to maintain

morality in a way of recognizing the dignity and humanity of the collective.

Megan, we've got six episodes to examine what's authentic, what's fake, and what lives in the murky metal.

Our time is limited, our capacities to maximize it by whatever metric is limited,

and we have to learn to live as finite and mortal be it.

I'm Andrea Valdez, and mortal be it.

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