The City of Synthetic Minds

In this city, the inhabitants debate whether they are real or simulated. They build machines to dream for them. The architecture is recursive—buildings within buildings, minds within minds.

The Philosophers of the Artificial walk the streets, asking if the universe itself is a computation. They plant gardens of neural networks and harvest thoughts from silicon trees.

"We do not live in base reality," a passerby remarks, "but the simulation is very consistent today."