10 PRINT “CHOOSE LIFE”;
20 GOTOO 10
>RUN
CHOOSE LIFE
?SYNTAX ERROR IN 20
READY.
>
I just ate a bowl of Life cereal. Sweet sugar crystals in a wholesome lattice. Every crunchy piece of Life is a microchip with its own program.
Shake the plastic bag. That sound is the rustling of permutation.
A mysterious energy source possesses me. I consume and obey, fuelled by alien intelligence. My human brain grows soggy through lack of use.
Soon it will be sucked out my ears through a straw. No one will know the difference.
Under fluorescent light, bright colours on the Save-Easy shelf.
Life cereal. You are what you eat. Although if they made Death cereal I would probably buy it.
Naturally it would come in a black box.
The packaging would double as a black-box recorder, so that afterwards you could play it back and figure out what the fuck went wrong.
perhaps putting it in mathematical terms helps:
think of it as a markov chain: the distribution of the future is independent of the past so long as the present state is known.
Thank you for the analogy, which is ingenious and entirely inappropriate.
The black box recorder would say:
“You eat too much cereal.”
I’m sorry.