The Digital Labyrinth :: TDL: December 2019

"...the answer is a complicated one — but in one of the final scenes of the finale, Rami Malek's troubled computer hacker does his best to articulate the answer: "I'm not Elliot. I'm only a part of him."

In one final twist of the series (as well as a twist of the knife), the central character and the audience alike learns the truth: Elliot Alderson is not who he believes he is — at least, not the Elliot viewers have watched over the course of four seasons of tense technological exploits. The two-part series finale dives deeper into Elliot's psyche than ever before, as it becomes clear the "alternate universe" posited in the penultimate episode was nothing more than an illusory world, designed to keep "the real Elliot" safe from harm." https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/mr-robot-series-finale-explained-1264725

This is a unique and bizarre series that's worth reviewing on many levels.

https://ew.com/recap/mr-robot-series-finale

Of course the ending has to focus on his eye, just like in the movie, Vanilla_Sky.

"A female voice commands him to "open your eyes", and David opens his eyes."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla_Sky#Plot

https://filmcolossus.com/single-post/2017/06/01/Explaining-the-ending-of-VANILLA-SKY-why-its-all-a-dream-the-glitch-and-how-INCEPTION-helps

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/mr-robot-series-finale-explained-1264725?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/22/entertainment/mr-robot-finale/index.html

https://tv.avclub.com/mr-robot-ends-with-hope-heartache-peace-and-one-fina-1840600213

https://mrrobot.fandom.com/wiki/Rami_Malek ,
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX5R2xqZWND8nJqGTvel3nw

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Mr.+Robot

https://tv.avclub.com/just-before-the-series-finale-mr-robot-flips-reality-1840447737
By the ending of this episode it's really is a flip of perceptions, perspectives and realities.

"In his penultimate installment, Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail officially turned up the radio and dialed things up to an entirely unexpected level: a full-scale parallel universe, just as Whiterose (BD Wong) always promised.

At least, that's what it looks like..." https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/mr-robot-final-season-episode-11-411-exit-explained-1262832

https://www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/usa-network/284983/mr-robot-season-4-episode-11-review-exit
Is it a doppelganger kind of life or a digital copy of a copy in a quantum cosmic simulation?
https://www.tvfanatic.com/2019/11/join-tv-fanatic-to-give-thanks-for-all-things-television

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mr._Robot_episodes#Season_4_(2019)

It can be quite bewildering to see a doppelganger of yourself or someone that you know.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppelganger#Examples_in_fiction

"Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality
Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see..."
https://genius.com/Queen-bohemian-rhapsody-lyrics

{"Heautoscopy is a term used in psychiatry and neurology for the reduplicative hallucination of "seeing one's own body at a distance".}
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoscopy#Related_disorders

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150821-the-dangerous-consequences-of-seeing-your-doppelganger

https://www.today.com/popculture/famous-doppelgangers-celebrity-pairs-we-cant-tell-apart
DNA patterns can produce a striking similar likeness of a person from another time and sometimes within a contemporary context.
https://twinstrangers.net

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/the-website-that-matches-you-to-your-doppelganger-a6714141.html

(boredpanda.com)
https://www.boredpanda.com/celebrity-look-alike-doppelganger
When people look very similar to each other in the same time or epoch, several people might become confused, especially when they realize that they aren't just seeing a mask or an impression.

https://www.today.com/popculture/famous-doppelgangers-celebrity-pairs-we-cant-tell-apart ,
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=the+doppelganger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twins_(The_Matrix) ,
https://matrix.fandom.com/wiki/The_Twins ,
https://whatisthematrix.fandom.com/wiki/Twins

https://fusionanomaly.net/matrix.html

{"The idea that the universe is itself a computer—or, more suggestively, that the computer is the universe—extends back almost to the dawn of the information age. The German computer scientist Konrad Zuse was the first to suggest that the universe is being computed on a universal computer in Rechnender Raum, which was first published in 1969 [PDF link to English translation]. It was an idea ahead of its time. At the WSF event, Jürgen Schmidhuber, a professor of artificial intelligence at the University of Lugano in Switzerland (and intellectual descendant of Zuse’s) noted that after the publication of Rechender Raum, everyone thought that Zuse—who had already achieved legendary status in the computer science community for constructing one of the world’s first programmable computers, the Z1—had gone and lost his mind.

Yet the idea lived on, most notably in the work of Edward Fredkin, a polymath computer scientist who was also present on the panel. He was one of the three scientists profiled by Robert Wright in his book Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information; the chapter on Fredkin and his ideas was excerpted in the Atlantic Monthly as "Did the Universe Just Happen?"

It took the legendary physicist John A. Wheeler to really bring the idea to prominence within the physics community. He coined the pithy summation it from bit, and laid out a research program to investigate the connection in his 1989 essay "Information, Physics, Quantum: The Search for Links."}