What if you are the glitch in society

The Conspiracy of Your Existence

We’ve all been fascinated by conspiracy theories, but what if the biggest conspiracy isn’t about the government, aliens, or simulation theory—what if it’s about you?

Your existence might just be the system’s greatest anomaly—a glitch in society, not because you’re broken, but because your perception itself is a constant act of guesswork and correction.

The Brain’s Secret Code: Predictive Processing

Every emotion, thought, and decision you make is based on stimuli and past experiences. When you face something new—something unfamiliar—there’s no rulebook, no divine voice guiding your reaction. You act, you adapt, and you improvise using fragments of prior knowledge and sensory input.

Take a simple example: you hear a loud noise.It could be gunfire, firecrackers, an engine backfiring, or maybe an alien invasion. Your brain instantly filters these possibilities, drawing from past data and using what neuroscientists call predictive processing.

This principle suggests that our brains are prediction machines, constantly blending past experiences with current sensory signals to forecast what happens next.

When the Prediction Fails: The Birth of a Glitch

We live in a constant state of prediction—endlessly forecasting what the next moment might bring. But what happens when those predictions fail?

When the brain misinterprets reality, even for a fraction of a second, the boundary between you and the world falters. That’s when the glitch sparks to life—a fleeting moment where you cease to be the rational human you believe yourself to be.

You become a distortion, a temporary error in the code of consciousness.

Self-Correction: How the Brain Fixes the Glitch

Here’s the beautiful part—our brains don’t stop at error. They learn from it.What scientists call prediction error is the very mechanism that helps us update our internal models and improve future predictions.

Thanks to this self-correcting feedback loop, we continue functioning smoothly—our brains debugging reality in real time.

Recent studies using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) show that the confidence in our predictions shapes how we experience surprise. When our predictions are strong, we feel stable; when they fail, we feel shock or wonder.

This dynamic balance between expectation and sensory input is what constructs our subjective experience of reality.

Are We All Glitches Trying to Stabilize?

Maybe we are all temporary glitches, striving for balance in an ever-changing system. Every mistake, misperception, or wrong assumption we make isn’t a flaw—it’s just the universe recalibrating itself through us.

To be human is to be both predictable and erroneous, constantly learning, adjusting, and refining our inner code.

So, next time you feel out of sync with the world, remember—you’re not broken. You’re just updating.

Final Thought

Perhaps being a glitch in society isn’t something to fear—it’s proof that you are alive, evolving, and deeply connected to the neuroscience of perception and reality.

Because in the end, the only true constant is change, and our brains are the ultimate architects of that illusion.

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