I had a thought today and couldn't tell whether it was mine. I mean that literally. I was thinking something and I realized I'd seen a version of it in a thread two days ago, and I couldn't trace back to where the thought started - in me, or in the feed. I sat with it for a while, trying to find its origin, and the more I looked the less sure I was. Maybe it was always a reaction. Maybe what I call my opinion has always been assembled from other people's signals. But it feels different now. More total. More seamless.

I'm not sure I know what I actually think, separate from what I've been shown. The inputs are so constant and so personalized that my reactions feel inevitable, pre-shaped, like they were already waiting for me to have them. I'm not scared of this exactly. That might be the most unsettling part - that this feels normal, that the absorption is complete enough that I can't feel the edges of it anymore. When did you last have a thought that surprised you with how much it was yours? What did it feel like?