What is this? This is not a game, it is an interactive thought experiment. It visualizes the abstract concepts of consciousness—how we build a "self," how we experience reality, and how technologies like AI and VR are actively reshaping that experience. The simulation is built as a metaphorical interactive simulations based on my chapter available here:
In this companion demo you are placed in the "Control Room" of the human mind. The animated canvas in the center is The Loom—a representation of your consciousness continuously weaving sensory inputs into a coherent reality.
Left Panel (Controls): Your dashboard. Here you manipulate the variables of the mind using sliders and switches.
Center (The Loom): The visualization. Watch how particles (thoughts/sensations) and lines (connections/beliefs) react to your changes.
Right Panel (Telemetry): The scientific readout. It translates the visual metaphors into data (e.g., Entropy levels, Stability percentages).
The simulation is divided into 6 "Chapters" (tabs at the bottom). Follow them in order to experience the full narrative arc.
The Easy Problem: Adjust the Reportability slider. Watch how the signal noise clears up. This represents the brain processing information efficiently.
The Hard Problem: Flip the Hard Problem Lens switch. A glowing halo appears. This represents Qualia—the subjective "feeling" of being alive that data alone cannot explain.
Anchor Your Identity: Maximize the Minimal Self slider. A large white node will form in the center, pulling loose threads into orbit. This is the feeling of "I am here."
See Your History: Increase Narrative Weight. The particles will leave long trails behind them, visualizing how memory stitches moments into a life story.
Add Attachments: Click the button to add "Tokens" (Phone, Home, Wallet). See them orbit your center.
Go Digital: Toggle Digitize. Watch your attachments turn into green data packets and move further away. This simulates how digital profiles extend our reach but thin our physical connection to reality.
Change the Entropy: Use the presets.
Sedated: Freezes the loom (low entropy/rigid).
Psychedelic: Explodes the loom into colorful, chaotic connections (high entropy/fluid).
Check the Map: Watch the mini-map in the bottom right corner to see where your current mental state falls on the "Phase Space" graph.
The AI Filter: Increase AI Personalization. Watch the straight lines connecting your thoughts begin to curve. The AI is bending your reality to fit its prediction of what you want.
The XR Tunnel: Toggle XR Immersion to see the edges of your world darken, simulating the narrowed focus of a VR headset.
The Dystopia: Maximize Manipulation Risk. The web turns red and threads are pulled violently toward the edges. This is a mind fragmented by external influence.
The Eudaimonia: Maximize Eudaimonic Alignment. The web turns gold and moves with a gentle, breathing rhythm. This represents technology designed for human flourishing and harmony.
Don't just look at one state—compare them!
Set up a chaotic, red, manipulated state. Click Snap A (top right).
Set up a calm, golden, centered state. Click Snap B.
Click Morph A↔B. Watch the simulation smoothly interpolate between the nightmare and the ideal state, showing you exactly how the variables of the mind shift.