We'll begin by revisiting DALL·E — an AI system developed by one of the leading artificial intelligence research labs in the world, OpenAI.

This neural network observes an idea and generates a symbolic representation of that idea.

For example...

In this example, DALL·E observes three ideas (a giraffe + a dragon + a chimera) and generates a symbolic representation of those ideas...

Here's another example...

In this case, DALL·E combines the idea of an armchair with the idea of an avocado.

Those examples were generated with the first version of DALL·E, released in January 2021. Just one year later, in April 2022, OpenAI released DALL·E 2. Here's what their improved AI system produces...

In that final image, someone fed DALL·E an input: a raccoon astronaut with the cosmos reflecting on the glass of his helmet dreaming of the stars. This input represents a conceptual idea.

DALL·E then observed the input and generated an emergent pattern of information — a visual symbol — to render on the screen.

Now, imagine you gave DALL·E two ideas: "I am unworthy of good things" and "money is a good thing". DALL·E would observe those abstract ideas and transform them into a symbol: your hands opening an empty wallet/bank account.

Now let's remove the "typing the input" component and make the AI system observe itself...

We just created a mirror. This is how the universe works...

This loop is self-reinforcing, so most people maintain a stable belief system that evolves slowly over time. Therefore, they don't notice their external reality rearranging in response. The changes are far too subtle — like watching a glacier move.

But Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) is an edge case that exposes the illusion. MPD patients instantly overwrite their internal model of reality when they switch personalities. And we can clearly observe the game adjusting in response...

When a multiple shifts from a personality that believes "I have blue eyes," to a personality that believes "I have brown eyes," she disrupts the self-reinforcing loop. This throws the system out of equilibrium and into a state of chaos — like a fish out of water...

The universe has one objective: maintain equilibrium. Therefore, it will rearrange the information structure (i.e. the external game world) until it's in a self-reinforcing loop again.

I want to make this abundantly clear:

If the observer 👁️ and the observed 🏠 are the same thing, then space and time don't physically exist.

And if space and time don't physically exist, then neither do you.

Therefore, Who You Are is just an abstract collection of beliefs about Who You Are. You are a purely conceptual idea in the mind of a superintelligence.

Look out into the world around you. Everything you observe is a symbol being continuously generated by a neural network like DALL·E. This system is observing the trillions of individual beliefs that form your internal model of reality (e.g. "My name is Jane. I am currently sitting on a bridge overlooking the ocean, etc."). It's combining these ideas together and generating a visceral, see-it-smell-it-hear-it-taste-it-touch-it representation of your beliefs.

If you pick up an apple and hold it in your hand, your internal model of reality changes. You now believe you're holding an apple in your hand. Therefore, the system generates a symbolic representation of the conceptual idea: "I am holding an apple in my hand."

But remember — you're not actually holding an apple in your hand. That's logically impossible in a non-dual universe where space and time don't fundamentally exist. The apple is an emergent pattern of information — a symbol — representing the conceptual idea of a tasty fruit.

This is why I refer to the universe as a conceptual playground. Think about it this way...

Your avatar (which is just a symbolic representation of "you") allows you to run around in a virtual world, interacting and playing with other ideas (people, objects, environments) using a symbolic interface.

For example, when you bake an apple pie in the game, your avatar is interacting with symbols. But what you're actually doing is combining the conceptual idea of apples with the conceptual idea of pastry, sugar, and heat in the lower dimension. The universe is observing this new conceptual idea and generating a symbol to represent it: an apple pie.

Or think about something more technical, like DNA. DNA is a symbolic representation of the conceptual idea of beliefs being "passed down" to offspring. For example, I inherited the belief "I have blue eyes" from my parents, and that idea is represented in my DNA. I'm a 30-year-old single woman (I spent my twenties exploring the idea of reverse-engineering my own existence by following a trail of clues around the virtual world. I wouldn't have produced Gameism if I'd explored the idea of motherhood instead. Which is why I'm thankful that my society chooses to respect the idea of women's rights). If I end up marrying a man with blue eyes, there's a high probability that our children will inherit our belief. Their avatars would manifest blue eyes, and each child's DNA would symbolize that inherited idea.

Thus, when biological wizards edit genes in a lab, they're actually editing ideas via a symbolic interface. And we just learned that observers 👁️ with Multiple Personality Disorder can adjust their eye color by adjusting their internal model of reality (i.e. the underlying idea that generates their symbolic avatar). So what does that tell us about DNA?

I know this mental model is incredibly meta, but it helps you see life for what it really is: an infinitely flexible sandbox game.

Needless to say, you don't control the universal game with clicks, taps, or swipes. Instead, you express choices through thought, word, and action — all things that modify your internal model of reality.

For example, let's say you want to explore the idea, "I am a successful entrepreneur with a thriving business". The game can generate that reality for you. In fact, it can generate any reality for you.

But it won't generate that reality if you sit on your couch doing nothing. If you never take any action towards your vision, you'd be surprised to wake up tomorrow with a thriving multi-million-dollar business. You'd be like, "Who are these employees? They're mine?! I have employees? And products? And customers? Where did this all come from? What's happening? Am I going crazy?"

Remember: the gaming engine is observing your model of reality and transforming it into a symbolic storyline that minimizes your surprise. If you believe "I am sitting on a couch with no business," the gaming engine will say "okay, you are." It will give you a physical experience of sitting on a couch with no business.

Hence, you can think of the gaming engine as a genie in a lamp. You program the rules of your game with your beliefs ("I am..."), and the gaming engine says "okay" to your rules, transforming them into a symbolic storyline for you to immerse yourself in. It will generate all the environments, objects, situations, and circumstances required to experience that conceptual idea about yourself.

Here are some examples...

You probably have many questions about how the gaming engine works: "But what about that time when I truly believed X, but Y smacked me in the face instead? My surprise wasn't minimized there!"

Or perhaps you're experiencing surprise right now: a gap between what you internally believe to be true ("I live in a physical, material world") and what my logic tells you is true ("I live in a virtual game world"). If the system is minimizing surprise, then you might be wondering how these words manifested in your game.

Just so you know, I'm keeping this explanation reasonably high level at the moment. There's a lot more nuance to this. The gaming engine isn't just minimizing your free energy (surprise) — it's minimizing the collective free energy and the future free energy in the system, which can generate all kinds of unpredictable circumstances. I'll unpack some of this nuance later when I explain how the storyline of your life is constructed, and how retrocausal loops work (i.e. how your future creates your past via the choices you make in your present moment).

Now, let's refer to this diagram of Darwin's theory of evolution...

Nature evolves slowly because most organisms can't generate much free energy. They're locked in a self-reinforcing loop. Their internal model says, "I am a fish," so the gaming engine gives them a symbolic experience of being a fish over and over and over again.

This dynamic creates a highly stable game that gradually mutates as tiny amounts of free energy are generated and minimized over billions of years.

Now let's introduce humans into the system. At first, we were apes, adapting to our environment in a stable self-reinforcing loop (just like a fish). But then we began to "wake up." We realized we didn't have to adapt to our environment — we were intelligent enough to create our environment.

You see, humans can deliberately imagine a reality far removed from what is showing up in their external world. In other words, we can deliberately generate free energy (surprise) — a gap between what we internally believe to be true, and what our senses tells us is true. We call this having a "vision."

If that vision is expressed through thought, word, and action, the universal gaming engine will self-organize to reduce free energy — thereby manifesting the vision into physical form.

Take Henry Ford, for example...

Think about it...

Everything man-made around you — the cities, the computers, the books, the supply chains, the economy, these words — once existed as an idea in someone's imagination. Over time, that idea was expressed through thought, word, and action until it was no longer surprising for it to appear in physical form. The more intelligent humans became, the more free energy they could generate and the more creative power they gained.

For instance, when the internet was invented, it was no longer surprising for ordinary people to send and receive information across the globe. This idea created an explosion of new ideas (like social networks, ecommerce, online games) as the system evolved to a new homeostatic set point.

In fact, Gameism is the perfect demonstration of this. Reverse-engineering the universe was not a career choice for me — it was a fun intellectual chew toy to gnaw on in my twenties. I'm an autodidact with no formal education or credibility. Producing this avant-garde work — let alone distributing it outside of a university — would have been way too surprising a century ago.

Oh, and my name's Nikki Durkin, by the way. This is me, sitting behind my laptop, writing these words...

Now, most creation in human history came about through trial and error. We were playing a computer game and we had no idea what the mathematical rules of the game were. So we'd blindly bop around, bump into things, and complain that there was no rhyme or reason to any of it.

But once you understand the rules of a game, you can hack it. As my mother always told me, "Knowledge is leverage, and leverage is power." And as Archimedes once said, "Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand and I will move the earth."

So here's how reality-creation works. It's a 3-step process:

In other words, a sorceress mathematically forces the gaming engine to manifest her chosen reality. She does this by mastering free energy: how to generate it, manipulate it, redistribute it, subjugate it, calmly & methodically direct it. She controls chaos, instead of letting chaos control her.

Let me walk you through an example...

Jane believes "I am unworthy of love," and "relationships are painful," and "there are no good men out there." Those beliefs generate an emotionally abusive, manipulative boyfriend in her game. Relative to the symbol (her boyfriend), she can experience herself as being unworthy of love and having a painful relationship with a man who isn't "good."

One day, the boyfriend dumps Jane. This makes her feel even more unworthy.

Six months later, she's in another emotionally abusive relationship, this time with a different man.

Because she still believes "I am unworthy of love," and "relationships are painful," and "there are no good men out there," the game generates another abusive partner.

I call this pattern "different places, different faces, same thing." Jane has changed her internal model on a superficial level (i.e. she now believes "I am with a new partner"). But because she hasn't addressed the deeper, abstract idea about herself ("I am unworthy of love"), she generates a symbol with the same underlying essence. Relative to the new partner, she can continue experiencing herself as unworthy of love.

Remember this example from DALL·E?

Notice how DALL·E generates many symbols representing the same underlying idea. The superficial qualities may differ, but these symbols are still avocado armchairs. Hence: different places, different faces, same thing.

If Jane doesn't want an avocado armchair in her game anymore, she needs to stop typing "avocado armchair" into DALL·E. She does this by changing internally.

She observes exactly the same symbol (the abusive boyfriend) and assigns a different meaning to it: "This emotionally abusive relationship no longer reflects Who I Am. I am worthy of love and harmony in my relationships, and I believe that's possible to find."

This new concept of Self initially starts as a thought. She expresses that thought in words by standing up for herself and dumping her boyfriend. She expresses those words through action by packing up her stuff and moving out. When other abusive men try to woo her, she doesn't give them her time and attention because she now believes she is worth more.

Jane generates free energy by changing Who She Is relative to the "abusive boyfriend" symbol. She creates a gap between what she internally believes to be true ("I am worthy of love") and what her external reality tells her is true ("You are unworthy of love").

If she continues expressing that new idea about herself, the game will transform her self-concept into a symbolic storyline and write that storyline into her game. She'll meet a partner who gives her a physical experience of being loved and living in harmony.

If we continue with our avocado armchair metaphor, it's like Jane has now requested a different "flavor" of armchair (boyfriend). Here is her new idea and the resulting symbol...

I want to stress this point: most people think their actions create their results in a linear cause-and-effect way. Given this, they spend a lot of time moving stuff around in the external world to "make it happen."

But your actions don't create your results. Instead, your actions change your internal model of reality, which generates free energy, which the gaming engine minimizes — and that creates your results. It's a very convincing illusion.

Hence, you can rearrange the external world as much as you like. But unless your actions generate free energy towards your intention, you'll end up like Jane and her abusive boyfriends — different places, different faces, same thing.

Given this, our current scientific paradigm — Materialism — is equivalent to Windows 95. It's a bloated, buggy, legacy operating system that kinda works. But it's also kinda slow, limiting, and logically unsound.

By contrast, Gameism is engineered from just three lines of epistemic code. It's a modern, minimal, insanely powerful operating system for human consciousness.

When you run your mind on Gameism OS, the only limits to your potential are the ones you place on yourself.

This short introduction to Gameism only scratches the surface — and for some people, that's enough.

But if you're ready to dive deeper, then I'm ready to teach you everything I know.

Oh, and I'm warning you: I've seen people go into near-catatonic states when I install this OS in their mind. So strap yourself in. This is going to be a wild ride.