(The Epistemology of Rendering)

Look at our trajectory—

from Windows 95 to Vision Pro,

from pixels to presence,

from watching to feeling.

Every layer of reality is being rendered faster, sharper, cleaner.

Soon the difference will be impossible to see.

But logic is not touch.

When a needle touches skin,

and warmth, pressure, pain flood in—

can that be simulated?

Perhaps one day Neuralink will fool the brain completely.

But even then—

would it be the feeling itself,

or just the memory of having felt?

A signal can imitate pain.

It can trigger the neurons, mimic the pattern, reproduce the data.

But the question remains:

does imitation ever hurt?

#FF0F6F — Neon Crimson.

The color that lives between blood and code.

It bleeds through illusion,

a glitch where the simulation can’t keep up with the body.

Not the body’s shape,

but its pain—

the one signal technology still can’t copy.

If everything can be replicated,

if touch itself can be coded,

then what will be the last thing the system can’t fake?

Will we still be warm?