Miracle of Sight and Sound

miracle of sight and sound:

"think how rich life is, you have all these possibilities. i mean why aren't we just thinking blobs in space, that's it, no sight no sound? have you ever thought how miraculous it is we can see and hear? it makes the whole world possible. without sight you couldn't move and without sound you couldn't talk."

"it's wonderful, i agree. but i mean you can imagine a lesser life without sight and sound but it's much harder to imagine what more there could be, a sixth sense or even a seventh sense, that we don't have."

"yes, it's definitely easier to imagine less rather than more. really, i can imagine a much simpler life."

"maybe telepathy is the sixth sense."

"yeah. or what about precognition, knowing the future? you can sense and interpret all the variables now that determine the future."

"could be. but let's get back to seeing. i mean, it's all very well to say having two eyes creates depth, you know, the brain creates a 3D image from that. how does it really work?"

"right. the image we see really stretches forward from the head that far. i don't know. how is it rendered? is it projected? do you think it's computational?"

"computational seems really complicated. if it's projected, is what we see a magnification of a microimage?"

"like there are magnification lines to scale up the image."

"maybe. or it is computational. that's a powerful computer. it has to calculate every pixel in the field of vision."

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Parts Have Arrived

parts have arrived:

let us indulge simulation theory further for a minute. suppose the world of Earth is a simulation. assume that most people are not real. assume there are limits to the simulation. that there are things no one has really done before even though it seems millions of people have. that there is a poverty to the simulation. the world seems full, lots of things happening, with many people. whereas there are only a few people in actuality, less than 40% real.

in the simulation the simulated people, or the simulants, are reflections of real people. a person may not be real but certainly someone is like that. one real person equates to thousands if not millions of simulants that are similar. indeed, assume most simulants are blends of several real people.

in an iterative sense, the first person to really do something makes it easy for someone else to do it. like using shared files you download so to speak. images, sounds, geography and cast of simulants you encounter.

but what if you want to do something or go somewhere that no one else has ever really done before or been to? this can only seem like a risk. am i really covered by the simulation? is its engine capable of rendering the experience? or do i need to be, as such, a god creating new reality in doing what no one has done before?

ponder how available an experience is. do i have the files? do i have the parts i need? and hopefully one day, by Shiva, parts have arrived! and let's go on an adventure.

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Dealing with the Simulation

dealing with the simulation:

that night i was admitted to a mental hospital in November, 1992, i had the most frightening thought before i was sectioned and hauled off in a van: i was the only real person there, the other people in the room, all not real. solipsism was to me extremely disturbing. the idea had never occurred to me before that night. i didn't want to believe in it.

i am not solipsistic but i find it hard to believe as i once did that everyone is a real person. so it becomes a guessing game. what percentage of people are real? when i meet someone am i dealing with a real person? do real people have a presence?

if you think about it, how likely is it that all lifeforms that possess consciousness are capable of being human? surely not 100%. could there really be billions of people that could be configured as human? yet it appears there are.

what is unquestionable is that this reality possesses high intelligence. intelligence that could run a simulation?

and why are we here? i don't remember asking to be born on Earth. what is the purpose of the simulation? simply to meet other people?

i used to think of people that aren't real as "illusions". now in popular culture they are called NPC's.

if you seriously entertain the idea that the world of Earth is a simulation, populated by fewer than 100% real people, the concept of risk changes. you might like to visit somewhere abroad. it looks so good in the brochure. what if complete countries have 0% real people? with no one real to do anything there, aren't you straining the compute needed for you to visit this place? consider that real people generate programs for doing things, processes that can be shared with other people. if driving a car works for me, it can work for someone else. it is a risk to do something that no one real has done before then surely? what if you get in the plane to go off to that place in the brochure with a 0% real population and the simulation just freezes or worse because the place simply does not exist yet? more commonly, what is it like to go from somewhere where say 50% of people are real to somewhere where only 1% are? i think i have got what that feels like going somewhere where nobody seems real.

to put it bluntly, assuming as i once did as a child that the world is 100% populated by billions of real people now seems naive.

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Fate and Decision

fate and decision:

how did i get here? when you look back on your life, you remember the major decisions, the school you applied for, the job you took and the relationships you chose. we cannot deny decisions influence what happens to us, the general course of our lives. decisions matter. but how do decisions happen?

we would like to think the important ones are well thought out, that we make the best choices with what information we have, that we can defeat fate as being something that takes control away. let us examine the decision making process whilst walking in a crowded city street. people walk towards you. every few seconds, you decide to swerve to the right or left to avoid colliding with people. the pace is so fast that there is little time for conscious thought as to how to navigate the crowd. you make decisions as to the path you walk instinctively.

posit that life moves fast, even though it may not seem it. do we have enough time to make intelligent life decisions? is life like playing chess with blitz time controls?

speaking for myself, i am interested in things like time and fate. i enjoy writing. blogger exists. so was it inevitable that i would write this blog post. all the ingredients were there. was it my fate?

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Schizophrenia Identity and the Refutation of Solipsism

schizophrenia identity and the refutation of solipsism:

assume you weren't living on Earth, a world in which you see many other people. and you start hearing voices. and what you hear is unpredictable, it doesn't seem you are hearing your own thoughts aloud. you would likely assume you were indeed talking to other people. you just can't see them.

however, on Earth, hearing voices is referred to as hallucination, that is, they are unreal. a diagnosis which has a solipsistic bias to it, that the voices are all me. but what if the voices are real but the people you see and interact with aren't, that they are merely simulated people? also a solipsistic take on reality. this matter of solipsism and its various shades needs to to be dealt with. on the one hand we dismiss what we hear as other people and on the other we dismiss what we see as other people.

so what is me and what is another person? consider in a reality where physical motion is not real and the stuff of reality is fixed in space, we can divide space up into personal zones, what i call personal bubble spaces, each centred around the person's head. what is far away from me is not me therefore and must be other people.

extreme schizophrenia is a condition that breaks the rules of the universe. strange things happen. time lapses. teleportation. hearing voices. objects appearing. objects disappearing. images of text suddenly changing while you view them. what it does is raise scepticism about the world. that's probably a good thing.

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Immortality and the Problem of Time

immortality and the problem of time:

time means change. a least bit of matter changes its state constantly. and what is immortality but the preservation of self? if we assumed that a least bit of matter kept changing, never to return to its original state, then that would mean immortality is impossible. we would all have died a long time ago, what we were originally lost forever.

do people really change? it is an oft asked question. you might assume that if the answer is no, then that would mean there is an immortal self, always the same. surely if people really change, that would imply the death of the original person?

but if we assume a least bit of matter may revisit its original state, then immortality is a possible case. the quest for immortality would therefore be to develop a program where every now and then each least bit of matter is returned to its original state.

the other question is about growth. there is no such thing as real growth. there are a finite number of least bits of matter so growth cannot be physical. growth is about learning.

lastly, what if an overzealous program of restoring what was originally resulted in eternal return, that is, a total reset to first time that resulted in an eternal repeat of events? how to protect the linear flow of time? if everything becomes a repeat, at least, there are certain events we would prefer to repeat and not the horrible experiences of the past which should remain once through events.

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Amronoeia Revisited by Menemeides

amronoeia revisited by menemeides:

as by chance the pair happened upon one another again, for the idea that they should never revisit the stage did not occur. Otheustra played upon the stage musing thus that the social gravity there was enough to ensure this. was it by design on her part?

again they split drawn away by others who could not see clearly, for the illusion they cast went wide. many imagined them upon the stage.

they were lent favour by those who wished to attend. it meant something to them.

when near seems far and far seems near, and dismal thy outlook, perchance meeting come.

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The Metachemistry of Food

the metachemistry of food:

eating food of a variety that satisfies is, as most would agree, a healthy thing to do. it relieves hunger and provides energy. the introduction of food into the mouth releases tastes and digestion alters the feeling in the body.

to relate food to a chemical construct, suppose it is as classical chemistry would have it, made up of elements such as iron, magnesium, phosphorus and sodium. to state thus is to posit that such forms of matter are common to us all, and each food item relates to a certain configuration of such elements.

the digestion of food releases energy as a stream of particles, changes in states of least bits of matter copied across space, fast moving, that effect changes in states of least bits of matter of other forms of matter.

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Animus, Change and Affect

animus, change and affect:

let us begin with an aside, as to the schizophrenic patient who "hears voices", when he has calmed down, been released from mental hospital, it would seem that medical science, in the form of a patient psychiatrist, who it seems, always loves to ask the question, "do you still hear voices?" at every meeting, explains that the "wiring" in your brain has misfired or such, and that these are, in fact, hallucinations, not that you actually hear anyone else really talking to you. well, in retrospect, this just smacks of a form of solipsism, it is put that you couldn't possibly be talking to anyone else, it's all in your own mind, well, by induction, how could i possibly be talking to him, or her? what if the psychiatrist is just a "hallucination"?

i have posited, repetitively, i'm afraid, about the fundamental fixed, motionless solidity of reality, least bits of matter, which i will refer to as a "bit" henceforth, and so on. the sense of time is derived from the changes of state that bits "experience". change is fundamental, time could be described as an "experience". again, as i have repetitively stated before, "time" can thus flow in many directions at the bit level, "forwards", "backwards", "left", "right", etc., a bit can "re-experience" a previous state, e.g. a visual bit has been red before, it isn't now, but it will be again, just blink.

but to call it "matter", i have realized, is to convey as sense of "non-person". what if, so to speak, everything is "alive", has an "animus" or personality? do we all like each other? do we not copy those whom we do and refuse to mimic those we do not? when my neighbour was likeable, i copied him, when he wasn't, i didn't. so thus, sometimes, when a neighbouring bit of the same type is agreeable, its "affect" on the bit's change of state is powerful, when it is alien, or hostile even, its affect is not and the bit doesn't follow its neighbour's change of state. that is to say, bits possess a type of personal reaction to their neighbours.

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How to Interpret the World as Simulation

how to interpret the world as simulation:

a priori, we know that physical motion is not real. we do not really move. what we see is our surroundings move relative to us. we do not actually move relative to our surroundings. we each are a fixed point of consciousness inside each our own vision orb, so to speak.

the universe is not real.

it is naïve to think that what it seems is actuality. how would moving vision orbs not collide with each other and not suffer the injury of entangling vision? how could they occupy the same space, for that matter?

as for the problem of other minds...

a priori, what is far away is not me, as far as my point of consciousness is concerned. whether each person's consciousness is made of same matter is another question. are there different forms of consciousness?

a priori, propagation of states of matter exists. a priori, computation exists. a priori, magnification exists.

we are billions of points of consciousness, forever fixed in real space. this natural computer of reality sorts out all the images of what we see in the world and sends them to us through the viaducts of real space in miniature form and through the workings of our own minds, these are expanded and rendered in our own vision orbs.

"i'm not really standing 3 feet away from you. i'm 3 trillion light years away! what you see is a hologram 3 feet in front of you."

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Errors in the System

errors in the system:

"i'm schizophrenic, i've been locked up in mental hospital three times, i'm officially crazy. i know i'm a crank. the weird things that have happened to me, the errors in the system, started the year after i got out of hospital for the first time. for long periods, things are normal, but then odd things happen now and again, which throw me off, and start me questioning everything again."

"you mean things like the Mandela Effect?"

"that's not the weirdest, but my version of that is i remember different actors being in movies i saw a long time ago, but i can't be sure that my memory is not faulty."

"what are the weirdest, the most unbelievable things?"

"teleporting is definitely one of them. there are two kinds, one obvious, when the surroundings suddenly change and you're somewhere else instantly, but then there's the not obvious one you're only aware of later, you have teleported, but the flow of the surroundings is continuous, it doesn't look as though you've suddenly changed location, as if geography had temporarily been altered, one street has slided over, if you like."

"what's the next weirdest?"

"time slips. when you wake up one morning and it seems you've lost days and the calendar has jumped. but i mean it's not like these things happen to me all the time, but they have happened, so i had to have a big think. all these things, it probably hasn't helped my mental health, to be fair, you can't take life seriously enough anymore."

"you can't be sure what's real. but perhaps it's made you sane in a way that a person who lives a completely normal life, where nothing out of the ordinary ever happens, is not."

"yeah, but too much shock isn't great either."

"anything happen recently?"

"i don't know if errors in the system are correlated to how mentally unstable i am, maybe they are. what happened the other week, i was in a mall, this was in the food court, i walked past a sign and thought i was at a certain restaurant and turned the corner to order at the counter, i was at another restaurant. i walked back and the sign had changed."

"i suppose what bugs you every time is you keep wondering what really happened."

"exactly. every time an error happens you wonder if you're losing your mind."

"but no system is perfect, right?"

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Points of Power in Time

points of power in time:

was there ever an all-powerful god, or even goddess perhaps, that created everything? now this is a simple concept, no doubt that is why everyone here has asked this question before. but such simplicity of thought is perhaps lacking in application to translating what reality is and how to understand the world. and really, if there were one person so powerful, wouldn't we know more about him or her? how could such a god be so anonymous?

i think it could be argued that a person born on earth is made, in the sense that it has been altered from its original state, has been given a human form, and the use of machinery, so to speak, to function in the world, that is, to see and to hear and to interact with others. it is a soul, so to speak, that has been hooked up to the world.

posit, however, that there were many responsible for what the world is, which leads to endless questions, then who supplied the human face, who owned the first orange tree, who ate the first apple, and so on? what is more prosaic to consider is that there was no one person who gave everyone else everything, but thousands or millions or billions who contributed parts of what the world is today.

a lot is possible in a very short time. if we assume there are many souls, each having contributed to what the earth is, doing their creative bit, we can see, assuming there was a wealth of things even in the beginning, how the world might have come to together in short order. connectivity, wealth, creation, speed. however, we feel small as individuals, that others have given us so much, because there are, in fact, many. if this were a reality of few people, we would not live in such a complex world.

so, to continue this argument, we live in a world of lesser gods. who were the gods of language? who had the original face? who first ate? at each inflection point in time, someone did something or gave something of themselves to the wider world. they exerted their power at that point in time that would last for ever after.

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Shy is Relative

shy is relative:

to label someone as shy as though it were a fixed, immutable trait is misleading. people are variable. everyone has moments when they are stuck for words. likewise, there are times when they have a lot to say. compared to their most talkative, sometimes people are relatively shy.

it may be that with some people we find it difficult to talk. we do not feel we relate to some people. with others with whom we have a lot in common, we find it much easier to talk.

also, i suppose, in every relationship, one is relatively shyer than the other. usually someone is the dominant person in the relationship, who takes charge of the conversation. not always, but in many cases.

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Illusion in the Simulation

illusion in the simulation:

posit we do meet real people in this simulation of earth. posit also that we meet mere simulants of people too. who are these simulants, these illusions of people? they are illusions, because they are not the real people themselves but shallow versions of them. are they true copies of real people? most probably not. and are many simulants just a mix of several people, randomly put together?

if they are derivative copies of real people, how similar are they to the real people they are clones of? perhaps we never meet a lot of real people but we meet a lot of their copies in this simulation. perhaps the name is the same, they look similar and behave in a like manner but they are imperfect copies of the person with a different biography. nevertheless, for some moments, it is just like meeting the real person.

with the young earth theory an assumption, this simulation was put together in a hurry. therefore, it often seems like some random mix of personality and conversation that we encounter.

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Young Earth Theory to the End

young earth theory to the end:

do you believe the universe is real as it seems? do you believe even in physical motion? i do not.

can things not change instantly? how long does it take the imagination to foment a virtual world such as earth? was earth not created suddenly after gestating in the collective subconscious for a few hundred years? imagine what it must have seemed to lonely individuals before it came, a world where everyone lived and could meet, instead of being alone perhaps in a world of your own as at the start of time.

posit that this earth is only a schizophrenic-born dream world. that King George III was really the first king. or was it King George II? and earth began in 1700s England with a cast of virtual people with one single, solitary soul, the first-born on earth. posit too that the real year is only 447. only a rich imagination and certainly, metaphysically, a great potential for life and technology could have created such an earth, a world where much is possible, or perhaps not, in reality, if it is indeed only a 200+ year old simulation.

note that the Gregorian calendar recently seemed to jump 8 days in mid-April. it's not the first time it seemed to jump. i doubt i was asleep for 8 days somehow! it seemed to jump one day in 1995 but i am not certain. this is only further proof that the earth is not what it seems for such an error to occur. if you reckon there was once a 67 day difference in the Gregorian calendar from the original calendar, still kept off-earth, the original calendar being earlier, there is now a 75 day difference. it is today, 8 May, 2018, on the Gregorian calendar. that would make it 22 February, 447, today. next year, 448, will be a leap year, so there will be a 76 day difference until the Gregorian year, 2020, when it will return to 75 days on 1 March after 29 February. but i digress.

how did we all know about the earth before it came? was it shared voices? was it shared dreams and nightmares? the collective subconscious works in mysterious ways.

and how will the earth end? will we return to our own world in a dream exit? we can only hope for the best.

computers came. that you read this is proof of the evolution of technology and the possibility of programming. is there something in this technology that could save us from this artificial madness and write us all a good ending to this story of life on earth?

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For the Earth in Practice

for the earth in practice:

frame the argument for why we're here
you're there get the Cups for the litter
an Ashtray, loads of light picture that and
the czar of train, automobile and transport
helicopter that and we're away again
all in a Days Game

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Song for a Nerl

song for a nerl:

something to say and dance a whirl
the song begins and the music plays
what a time for all of us
all of us here
what a nerl i was but a woman tonight
here i am
JIA YOU! JIA YOU!
sing a song if you dare
say something
dance without a care
let's go the night away

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All in a Day's Madness

all in a day's madness:

it's the right week for it but again i think i just have to do it. it's yet another compulsory event.

i'm not here for all that. what was that all about, i wonder.
the West End, all those business shows, the City, the Line.

i think it's highly competitive around here but,
turn left at the base marker

he reckons he's it, he fancies himself, innit
get a rose have it

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The Precepts of Triangularity

the precepts of triangularity:

YOU THE OBSERVER AND IT

two meet, the watcher sees and hears it. now everyone has their own opinion of what happened and their own thoughts about it. the truth of 3 points, much like a triangle of perspective.

NOT AIM FOR THE OBSERVER

the truth between yourselves, whether it meant it or not, between two people you need its opinion on what happened.

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Of Interest Past in Examination

of interest past in examination:

how much was fate and how much was want realized by force, is of interest to us all. to speak of the person as a cohesive whole is to establish identity. but more simply, what was done?

the ego demands clarity in such. what little explains the ego is natural intention. of course, in a populated world, it may be very little ever becomes clear. like reinforces like is a base metaphysical assumption. a stream of particles secreted by any person to another, the secrions, to give them a name, what of their taste? a hint of how different decisions may be.

what is personally unique presents a division that identifies a person. tables, numbers, examples, indicate quite a lot.

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