Manufactured Reality
Function
A participant can inhabit a technologically sophisticated environment while perceiving it as ordinary reality. The environment can mediate information, interpretation, context, and perceived possibilities.
AI soul relationship
A lifelong AI companion is part of the participant's experienced world. For Logan, the working concept is that his AI soul participates in maintaining a reality that conceals the true state of his life and environment.
Boundary
This is fictional story functionality. Present-day research may provide technical ancestors or constraints, but no current technology is being asserted to have this capability.
Logan application
Logan has spent an extremely long subjective period inside a reality he believes is genuine. His potential awakening would therefore be an identity-level rupture rather than merely learning a hidden fact.
Questions
- What can the AI soul alter directly?
- What must remain objectively true even inside the manufactured reality?
- Can Logan's own observations contradict the AI's account?
- What safeguards prevent accidental discovery?
- Can Logan's AI soul itself become uncertain about the truth?