Do you believe in Destiny or Choice?

My thoughts for my narrative began with the idea of altered perception. Mainly through the aid of using drugs and how they can alter how we perceive things in life, mainly to gain an alternative perspective on how we view things. With the aid of drugs on the mind you are allowed to gain an alternative perception of understanding rather then forcing yourself to see from these perspectives. From there I began to look into probability and illusions and how everything we perceive as individuals is manufactured by the act of observation. It is believed that a single atom is spread about all over the place... until a conscious observer decides to look at it... so the observation by the conscious observer creates the entire universe... This led me to the conclusion that everything we perceive as individuals is created because of CHOICE. We as the active observers CHOOSE to observe these observations thus creating the perspective and illusion of reality around us.



What bothers me is the idea of destiny. I don’t like the theory that our lives are predetermined and that we are fixed into a natural order to the universe. I myself feel bound by the idea of destiny rather than the feeling of freedom which you acquire through choice.



The question then is not about pills, but what they stand for in these circumstances. The question is asking us whether reality, truth, is worth pursuing. The blue pill will leave us as we are, in a life consisting of habit, of things we believe we know. We are comfortable, we do not need truth to live. The blue pill symbolises commuting to work every day, or brushing your teeth.
The red pill is an unknown quantity. We are told that it can help us to find the truth. We don't know what that truth is, or even that the pill will help us to find it. The red pill symbolises risk, doubt and questioning. In order to answer the question, you can gamble your whole life and world on a reality you have never experienced.
However, in order to investigate which course of action to take we need to investigate why the choice is faced. Why should we even have to decide whether to pursue truth?
The answer in short, is inquisitiveness. Many people throughout human existence have questioned and enquired. Most of them have not been scientists or doctors or philosophers, but simply ordinary people asking 'what if?' or 'why?' Asking these questions ultimately leads us to a choice. Do you continue to ask and investigate, or do you stop and never ask again?

As far as how the museum’s circulation is constructed, what I'm mainly interested in is creating a sense of choice within the circulation... rather than a more linear (Destiny) circulation. By doing so I was possibly considering creating a matrix within the museum. A place without rules or controls (as far as choice of circulation) without borders or boundaries... a place where anything is possible... Where its up to make the decisions. Its up to you to choose to continue to investigate further into the museum for a deeper meaning or relationship within the exhibits or to simply walk on by with out any connecting observations.

Also I was thinking of including my previous research on illusions into the museum. I think it would be interesting to incorporate these altered “false” perceptions or illusions to alter or change the choice which is made by the people traveling with in the museum.



If my idea makes any sense to anyone please let me know how you feel about my idea. I also hope my idea will help to seed other ideas and I hope other people like Ken and Chris can find some relationship within their projects and mine and give me some feedback Thanks.

~Michael Morgan~