The person who replied to you is over complicating things. Encoding and decoding share a monotonous relationship that sometimes it can be overlooked and taken for granted. Our consciousness is like VR and it’s proven that synthetic data can provide far more data for AI and humans to use in future artifical neural networks. First we get text to image for the brain, then we compile up “time screenshots” to make text to video then once we get text to 3D image, text to 3D video, reality will basically feel 100% blended. The singularity will unlock our lucid dreams, something our ancestors would drool over. To live in the dream realm again. To make it simple, we are plugging our biological instruments into the same frequency “wirelessly” (but still wired just invisible to our eyes) into our computers for us to interpret back. We give the computer a command and it streamlines to another computer (being our consciousness) to interface with it. That’s why in the “old” days, when they said someone cast a “spell”, it’s referring to spelling words out into the keyboard/ or whatever your using to remote control someone. Imagine a little cute sim falling under a spell and you pop up in their world through a portal, they’ll be so brainwashed with religion, they’ll think you cast a spell/possessed them because they disregard science and give more meaning into magic. To program, to brainwash, to be under a spell all mean the same thing. This was my epiphany when I was on dmt. We are always programmed even when we think we aren’t. Free will is an illusion, why I say this is because multiverse “theory”. Natural and synthetic are illusions. It doesn’t matter if you are in a simulation, it only matter that you exist. When you get killed in a video game, you just respawn or what we would call reincarnate. Ik I sound like Alan Watts right now lol, anyways back to playing MW2 warzone.