The Matrix

masta247

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#1
A very cool article here:

http://www.thekeyboard.org.uk/The Matrix.htm

A dude that I really love reading (a very good physicist, not a religious guy) made a very good "what if" thread about "reality" and afterlife from a totally different perspective.
I'm sure you can tell where it's heading from the very first sentence but he elaborates later, which is interesting to read.

Other than that again I recommend other of his articles. I really enjoyed these recently, which made me think how limited humans are:
http://www.thekeyboard.org.uk/More than five senses.htm
http://www.thekeyboard.org.uk/What is reality.htm
http://www.thekeyboard.org.uk/Reason for our existence.htm

from the "senses" one:

I am going to digress here for a minute, but please bear with me, I am trying to make a point. Years ago I read this in a novel, so its not my idea. It was a pleasant summer's evening and I decided to do what I had just read. I went out into the countryside as the evening sky was darkening and laid down on my back on the grass looking up at the emerging stars. My feet were pointing towards the east. I picked out a bright star near the horizon that I could see through the branches of a nearby tree. I spread-eagled my arms and legs and gripped the ground with both hands as if I was holding onto the surface of a giant beachball and didn't want to fall off. I watched that star as it moved upwards through the branches of the tree. Now the important part. I imagined that the star was stationery and that it was the giant beach ball that I was holding onto that was rolling forward. The effect was amazing. It made me feel quite giddy, but all I was doing was experiencing things as they really are, the sky does not revolve around us, it is us that is revolving. Knowing it and being aware of it are two different things. It was the first time I had actually felt the sensation that the world was turning.

Why did I tell you this? because it illustrates the way we accept things, the way we come to look at things without so much as a second thought. Sometimes it is a good idea to look at things differently.
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So armed with a new sense, a new window on the universe, what would we 'see' that we don't see now? What things are we missing? What secrets would we uncover? It would be like giving sight to a blind man which opens up a whole new world. Even with artificial help we could never see into this 'invisible' world, we just see more than we could with our unaided senses. A machine can not present images to a blind man nor sound to one who is deaf.

Are there things going on that we are completly unaware of?
 

masta247

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#3
To some extent yes, this article was pretty old. Anyway he wrote this only to prove a point that we can't equip ourselves with new senses we do not have and that we are missing so much by being limited to only a few and not being able to experience most things, even though we already know that some things that we can't feel do exist. There are probably many, many more things we'd find out if we had a new sense. It would open up a whole new perspective.

For me it was great realizing that I have not experienced probably 99,9% things that I believe in and I've never really tried to experience something after I found out how it works in theory. I just accepted and noted it to remember in the future and carry the knowledge which is actually meaningless to me if I will not even experience it anyway.
Most things we can't actually experience even if we tried, we just know that it is that way, but have never found out or felt it by ourselves.
Obvious stuff but very cool because I've never thought about it that way.
 

Flipmo

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#4
You know, I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious....
 

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