The cause of ‘pseudoreality’ is, in fact, quite simple. We live much of our lives mechanically. I have elsewhere labelled this mechanical aspect of man ‘the robot’. We have a kind of robot servant who does things for us. We learn some complicated activity, like typing or driving a car, with a painful slowness; then the ‘robot’ takes over, and does it far more efficiently than ‘we’ could. Yet he does not only do the things we want him to do - like typing a letter or speaking a foreign language - but also the things we would prefer to do ‘ourselves’. A symphony moves us deeply; but the tenth time we hear it, the robot is listening too, and it loses half of its impact. ... When we become tired, the robot takes over, and does our living for us.