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