This will blow your mind - Is this reality?
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Don't think too hard into these things, or one day you too will be ranting on youtube as "the one", which is one step away from screaming about lizardmen, and wearing a tin foil hat to keep them out of your brain (it doesn't work!)...
Don't think too hard into these things, or one day you too will be ranting on youtube as "the one", which is one step away from screaming about lizardmen, and wearing a tin foil hat to keep them out of your brain (it doesn't work!)...
Reality is your perception, so yes.
You were five? Either your memory is incorrect, or your brain just messed up. It happens to the best of us.
Incidentally, did I mention that I high-fived God once?
And for the "virtual reality?!" idea, who cares? If we are, sweet! If not, ah well, back to bein' lazy. It wouldn't change anything, since nothing matters in the first place.
You were five? Either your memory is incorrect, or your brain just messed up. It happens to the best of us.
Incidentally, did I mention that I high-fived God once?
And for the "virtual reality?!" idea, who cares? If we are, sweet! If not, ah well, back to bein' lazy. It wouldn't change anything, since nothing matters in the first place.
I think people see time moving slowly do to a hightened state of awareness, a primal instinct from when Humans were cavemen or whatever.Vendayn said:
Don't know about the rest of your, but Cogito Ergo Sum.
After that we need assumptions to get any further.
I choose to assume that the sensory input received by my brain is true, within the biological constraints of my senses and the ability of my brain to interpret them. Why do I choose to believe this? Because I get (to me) observable results in a consistent manner. An electrical engine I build yesterday will function today. It will function tomorrow, provided all the parts stay intact.
To assume we live in a Matrix-world is to disregard this observed consequence. To assume the Matrix, you are essentially assuming that it is possible to walk trough walls today, when it wasn't possible yesterday; you are assuming that it will be possible to control objects with telekinetic powers tomorrow when it is impossible today. You are, in essence, assuming that the reality you observe is entirely mutable, dependant only upon the local code for the Matrix.
I ask anyone truly believing this: Why do you not act in this manner? Why do you belive the Matrix and yet act as if you didn't? Why do you constantly assume your car will run, that you will need to eat, that your computer will not go up in flames the next minute as the laws for electromagnetism are suddenly changed?
Because deep down you know it an insane way to live. You realize you would die within moments as the result of your actions.
Perhaps I am an Agent sent to monitor these forums and ensure your compliance with the primary programming. Perhaps I am freed resistance fighter, seeking new people ready for the truth.
Or just perhaps, I am a human like you pondering philosophical questions on his spare time for fun and entertainment.
As for the 'world-freezing' memory? Assuming you really remember it, its a botched-up memory. Memories loose reliability as time passes, this is a well known fact among crime investigators. It is part of human nature to analyze, reflect on what happened and run scenarios in their mind; what could have happened if I did B instead of A like I really did? But the problem with this is that it is an organic process. As new thoughts and ideas get formed and linked to the memory, the original memory slowly becomes more corrupt. At first, it will be the details. Then bigger things and bigger things.
An example of this is a fake memory of mine of a visit I had to Norway. I remember my brother running into a river after a ball, getting wet and becoming sick, necessitating our quick return to our homeland. Only problem with this: I wasn't born. I was a baby in my mothers womb, on my eight month. I had simple heard stories of that holiday from my brother and my parents later in life and somewhere along the line subconsciously constructed a likely memory of how the event might have happened. I remember the event like I remember my own fifth birthday party: a little fuzzy, more general emotions and feelings than any actual details and so on. If I had nothing else to go on, I might very well accept this fake memory as real. But I know from objective facts that the memory never took place, that my personal perspective on the event is impossible.
I suspect something similar happened here in the OPs case. Or it's just standard internet BS some people spout top gain attention. Besides, there are a phlectora of diseases, disorders and just plain oddities associated with human senses. And they are surprisingly common, albeit usually mild enough to go unnoticed or uncared.
After that we need assumptions to get any further.
I choose to assume that the sensory input received by my brain is true, within the biological constraints of my senses and the ability of my brain to interpret them. Why do I choose to believe this? Because I get (to me) observable results in a consistent manner. An electrical engine I build yesterday will function today. It will function tomorrow, provided all the parts stay intact.
To assume we live in a Matrix-world is to disregard this observed consequence. To assume the Matrix, you are essentially assuming that it is possible to walk trough walls today, when it wasn't possible yesterday; you are assuming that it will be possible to control objects with telekinetic powers tomorrow when it is impossible today. You are, in essence, assuming that the reality you observe is entirely mutable, dependant only upon the local code for the Matrix.
I ask anyone truly believing this: Why do you not act in this manner? Why do you belive the Matrix and yet act as if you didn't? Why do you constantly assume your car will run, that you will need to eat, that your computer will not go up in flames the next minute as the laws for electromagnetism are suddenly changed?
Because deep down you know it an insane way to live. You realize you would die within moments as the result of your actions.
Perhaps I am an Agent sent to monitor these forums and ensure your compliance with the primary programming. Perhaps I am freed resistance fighter, seeking new people ready for the truth.
Or just perhaps, I am a human like you pondering philosophical questions on his spare time for fun and entertainment.
As for the 'world-freezing' memory? Assuming you really remember it, its a botched-up memory. Memories loose reliability as time passes, this is a well known fact among crime investigators. It is part of human nature to analyze, reflect on what happened and run scenarios in their mind; what could have happened if I did B instead of A like I really did? But the problem with this is that it is an organic process. As new thoughts and ideas get formed and linked to the memory, the original memory slowly becomes more corrupt. At first, it will be the details. Then bigger things and bigger things.
An example of this is a fake memory of mine of a visit I had to Norway. I remember my brother running into a river after a ball, getting wet and becoming sick, necessitating our quick return to our homeland. Only problem with this: I wasn't born. I was a baby in my mothers womb, on my eight month. I had simple heard stories of that holiday from my brother and my parents later in life and somewhere along the line subconsciously constructed a likely memory of how the event might have happened. I remember the event like I remember my own fifth birthday party: a little fuzzy, more general emotions and feelings than any actual details and so on. If I had nothing else to go on, I might very well accept this fake memory as real. But I know from objective facts that the memory never took place, that my personal perspective on the event is impossible.
I suspect something similar happened here in the OPs case. Or it's just standard internet BS some people spout top gain attention. Besides, there are a phlectora of diseases, disorders and just plain oddities associated with human senses. And they are surprisingly common, albeit usually mild enough to go unnoticed or uncared.
Actually, that kind of time perception is <url=http://www.cracked.com/article/114_5-superpowers-you-didnt-know-your-body-was-hiding-from-you_p2>perfectly possible. That's less evidence of a giant computer program and more evidence that we really don't understand the human mind all that well.
If we do live in a virtual reality, they made convincing enough for me to not care.
Now if only they could make it actually GOOD.
Interesting thread btw
Now if only they could make it actually GOOD.
Interesting thread btw
It matters not. If its fake, then what choices do we have.
A: Just run with it.
B: Pout until we give up and just run with it.
Useless talk if you ask me.
A: Just run with it.
B: Pout until we give up and just run with it.
Useless talk if you ask me.
Being this is a gaming website, I'd like to give advise you to be like Altair. Just act on the information you have and learn. Don't demand it, don't think there is some higher truth or meaning to anything. Just act on what you know or have reason to suspect is logical.
Right now, it doesn't matter that you might be in a virtual reality program. That aspect of your life would only matter or exist in a meaningful sense once it becomes something you can actually perceive and change.
Right now, it doesn't matter that you might be in a virtual reality program. That aspect of your life would only matter or exist in a meaningful sense once it becomes something you can actually perceive and change.
Your right. That is crazy.Reuq said:
And whats up with the little black asterisk? Why is it just sitting there?
Awwwww....... Someone ninja'd me.
I believe I recall seeing an argument on the possibilities that we're being simulated by a computer simulating the universe being simulated by a computer simulating the universe being simulated by a computer simulating the universe being simulated by a computer simulating the universe being simulated by a computer simulating the universe being simulated by a computer simulating the universe being simulated by a computer simulating the universe being simulated by a computer simulating the universe...Vendayn said:
I need to find that again.
