[skybrian]

Instead of a sense of dread, how about learning to be comfortable with uncertainty? There's a lot going on in the world where we rely on others for information, and probably can't know for sure without doing a lot more research. Admitting you don't know something is a good thing, particularly when there's no need to know.

I see a lot of the opposite: people pretending to be instant experts about whatever issue is in the news, when they knew nothing about it yesterday. It makes it harder to tell what's going on.

[zxcb1]

Yes, learning how to deal with uncertainty is necessary. I think the analogy though is something like this: Your mind was running on hardware, now its running inside a container inside a container. Do you have a reasonable chance of figuring out how things work, also will it even be relevant? Inside the filter bubble / matrix everything seems consistent.