Hello again, beautiful, beautiful beings of light. And welcome back to another expand episode with yours truly Elizabeth April.

Today I want to talk about the thing that you're probably holding right now. That's right. Your phone.

Let's talk about phones. Let's talk about the internet. Let's talk about the way in which these

things and aspects of our reality dictate our life, but also like let's just

talk about what they are. I have thought about this for a very long time and when I first had this,

I guess, philosophical question in my mind is back in university when I had my like, you know, small little

PC laptop and it's all I could afford. And I would take notes and I would write essays and I would

read peer reviewed articles and, you know, just kind of deep dive into politics,

because that's what I was studying. And it would be such a bizarre sensation of I would get a coffee

and no water and whatever I needed. And I would sit down at a table with my laptop and four hours would go by.

And what really tripped me out was the thought, and I don't know if you've ever thought about

this or if I'm just weird, but what really tripped me out was the thought of physically

if someone were to watch me in this moment. Just not watch

what's on the screen in front of me, but just watch me. If someone were to have watched me in the last

four hours, I wouldn't have moved. I wouldn't have done anything.

As a matter of fact, I wouldn't have interacted with this physical world at all,

other than maybe a sip of my coffee and a click of the keyboard.

I always felt like it was so interesting that we can sit in front of a screen and do nothing with this physical reality.

Like, imagine if someone from the 1800s were to observe what a university student does, right,

on their computer all day, or what a programmer does. Like,

imagine that. It would be bizarre to them. Well, why is that young man wasting his whole day

staring at this thing? Now, of course, we can think about TV as well, right? It's the same thing.

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