THE 1960’S WERE A FORMATIVE PERIOD FOR BOTH CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES AND TECHNOLOGY. WITH ITS EPICENTER IN CALIFORNIA, THE PERIOD COMBINED PARADOXICAL BELIEFS FROM THE POLITICAL LEFT AND RIGHT TO FORM A KIND OF HOPEFUL TECHNOLOGICAL DETERMINISM. EMULATOR IS A HYBRID ESSAY/FILM THAT EXPLORES A SPECULATIVE TIMELINE THAT PARALLELS OUR OWN HISTORY OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND COMPUTING IN GENERAL. HALF OF THIS PALINDROMIC FILM EXPLORES WHAT HAPPENS IF THE THINKING OF THIS PERIOD RESULTED IN DIFFERENT TECHNOLOGICAL PARADIGMS, BASED ON NEW AGE AND FRINGE SCIENCE BELIEFS- PRINCIPALLY FROM THE RENEGADE THINKER WILHEIM REICH AND HIS THEORIES OF ORGONE. IT TRACES AN ALTERNATE REALITY IN WHICH TECH HAS TRANSITIONED FROM A SILICON-BASED PARADIGM TO ONE WHICH CENTERS AROUND BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES AND THE TRANSMISSION OF DESIRE, RESULTING IN A CATACLYSMIC POST-SINGULARITY WORLD, WHERE VARIOUS AGENTS NAVIGATE AN EMBODIED VERSION OF OUR POST-AI CONFUSIONS. THE OTHER HALF EXPLORES HOW VARIOUS THINKERS AND WRITERS-STARTING WITH REICH, AS WELL AS OTHERS LIKE PHILIP K. DICK, JACQUES VALLEE, AND JOHN LILLY, EXPERIENCED ANOMALOUS EVENTS IN THEIR LIVES, BOTH CONNECTED TO THEIR OWN IDEAS OF AGENCY AND CURRENT TRANSHUMANIST BELIEFS SURROUNDING AI. PRESENTED AS SYMMETRICAL COMPLEMENTARIES RESONATING FROM THE SAME HISTORICAL NODAL POINT, ONE VIEWED FROM ANOTHER STUB IN THE MULTIVERSE, AND ONE LOOKING BACK AT OUR OWN, THE WORK INVITES VIEWERS TO CONSIDER OUR OWN MIRACULOUS AND STUPID IMAGINATIONS OF AI THROUGH A DARK MIRROR, PERHAPS TO SCRY NOVEL PERSPECTIVES.