Post by stratogustav on Feb 10, 2021 15:12:39 GMT
This is an old TED talk, but I want to share it because this is actually something I have believed for ages.
The way I came to the same conclusion is because back in the Windows XP era I happened to open a .JPEG photo using Notepad, and I noticed that the photo was all text.
In other words, if you were capable to actually understand how that code works, you could literally write a photo from your imagination into a real looking photo, as if it was taken in "real life", but it would be completely made up.
In a lot of ways that's why The Matrix movie resonated with a lot of us because deep inside we know they are actually touching on something authentic.
I am not particularly religious in the sense that I don't go to Church or anything like that, but when I read the Gospels as a kid and read that Jesus said that if your faith is at least like the size of a seed of mustard you can tell a mountain to move, and it will move, I was touched.
That stuff was always fascinating because I actually believe that it can be done, and I'm glad that someone has actually went out of their way to make the math, and even more fascinating that the math actually checks out.
This guy even made the math for how awareness exists without experience, and it also checks, which is another thing I always believed too, the Eastern philosophies had it right.
I have to say I really like his explanation of the atoms here as if they were pixels because that's probably the best way to explain people this stuff. There is literally nothing there, objective reality is all fake, and that's exactly how it feels to me when I see the leaves of trees when I go on a hike.
This is why when VR came into existence I was immediately sold because it reminded of the same concepts I have been believing for almost my entire life. The value of VR is basically the same, and if it was more developed we could probably make a better argument for it.
Right now the technology isn't quite there yet, but for those that aren't familiar with these concepts it gives them a solid glimpse of how the world really works.
It is nice to see someone else that shares the exact same opinions, and that the math checks because not many even want to consider it as it defies pretty much their entire belief system. Now I don't feel so alone in these ideas anymore, and it's great to know that.
The closest I had to people having the same ideas is the people that believe in simulation theory because simulation theory is pretty much the same thing.
Simulation theory is also no different than anything any major religion has been saying all alone, it is all about the wording, but the concepts are the exact same.
Except simulation theory doesn't cover the individual rendering part. Simply put, simulation theory is accurate, but it dismisses that our individual consciousness do work as a network for us to be able to interact with it.
The old saying we all know that "the sound" a tree that falls makes, doesn't exist when no one is there to hear it is actually true because no one is rendering it.
This solves quantum physics because it perfectly explains why particles behave so randomly, and that is because they are rendering-depending, and we the conscious are the ones making the rendering, so they will behave accordingly to whatever reality they are trying to accommodate, whether is ours, or another on top of another.
Within this fake reality I also do believe everything is alive, even inanimated objects and corpses because they are all made up of the same pixels which is basically energy, which is basically information, and which is basically nothing at the same time because it is just rendering.
It is very simple stuff if you believe it, I feel the newer generations that will grow up with better AR and better VR than the one we have will understand it right away because that stuff clearly shows it.
I have tried to make people understand this, and many may understand it without really agreeing because they are connected to The Matrix, and I know that if they truly understood it they would believe it too because once you see it you can't unsee it. It's definitely there, meaning there is really nothing there just our awareness.
This also adds to the experience of dying because I do believe that when people die consciousness enters to a wider spectrum, like a reality outside this one, like being in a dream of a dream.
This is hard for people to believe because they attach their sense of self to their brains, for example on how people with Alzheimer loses their relationship with society and family, or people that has suffered brain damage through accidents.
But to me that's just like losing an arm or a leg, you cannot longer do things you were able to do before, but you are still consciousness.
In other words the brain is the arm or the leg that allows you to make those labels through memories, but that's not you, those are just labels, just a function, like walking or grabbing something.
And when people die they lose those labels, so it is basically like when people have an orgasm they have a moment of clarity where you realize banging that chick wasn't that important, but before you came that was all you were thinking about.
So it is no surprising why the French call orgasm "La Petite Morte" because it is basically the same thing as dying just in a smaller sense. I imagine the experience of dying is basically the same just broader.
Back in December when I saw the movie Tenet it clicked with me because it is exactly the kind of weird crap that reality is capable to produce once you know space and time are just perception too.
That, and also the idea of leaving stuff for posterity which is why I wanted to write this somewhere. Even if the site is taken down someday, once something is on the Internet, it stays, there are always ways to trace it back.
People would think that little comments here and there are insignificant, but they are not, they are all part of a larger record for posterity.
People can also argue that no one has the mental capabilities to care for little details or random useless comments over a YouTube video for example, and that any comment is basically private because so many people are doing the same thing.
Well, what people aren't considering is that posterity won't need to do all the work, the work will be done by AI, and by the way AI is advancing it is not surprising that collecting large amounts of data and making sense of it can be a simpler task than people may think, and that's why comments here and there actually do have some value in the long term.
It is all a record of what we were and what we have become, and all the small things that lead to larger ones, so they are important because they explain the process, and it is even more relevant the stuff our generation writes because we were the first. For posterity we are "the ancient" ones that saw reality in a very unique way because of our perspective.
At some point maybe we will be able to trace back information erased by time itself too, even bring people back. There is literally no limit of what humans can accomplish within a reality where everything is possible because nothing is real per se, and everything is just the color that we give it.
This is what I call optimal positivism, that at the end concepts like love always win because that's what we are made of, philosophy.
But that's a thought too long to write about because it deals on how ideas produced in the imagination really do lead to tangible reality, which ironically it is the only thing I believe to actually be real, so I hope someday someone can make the math for that too because I guarantee it will check out as well.
The way I came to the same conclusion is because back in the Windows XP era I happened to open a .JPEG photo using Notepad, and I noticed that the photo was all text.
In other words, if you were capable to actually understand how that code works, you could literally write a photo from your imagination into a real looking photo, as if it was taken in "real life", but it would be completely made up.
In a lot of ways that's why The Matrix movie resonated with a lot of us because deep inside we know they are actually touching on something authentic.
I am not particularly religious in the sense that I don't go to Church or anything like that, but when I read the Gospels as a kid and read that Jesus said that if your faith is at least like the size of a seed of mustard you can tell a mountain to move, and it will move, I was touched.
That stuff was always fascinating because I actually believe that it can be done, and I'm glad that someone has actually went out of their way to make the math, and even more fascinating that the math actually checks out.
This guy even made the math for how awareness exists without experience, and it also checks, which is another thing I always believed too, the Eastern philosophies had it right.
I have to say I really like his explanation of the atoms here as if they were pixels because that's probably the best way to explain people this stuff. There is literally nothing there, objective reality is all fake, and that's exactly how it feels to me when I see the leaves of trees when I go on a hike.
This is why when VR came into existence I was immediately sold because it reminded of the same concepts I have been believing for almost my entire life. The value of VR is basically the same, and if it was more developed we could probably make a better argument for it.
Right now the technology isn't quite there yet, but for those that aren't familiar with these concepts it gives them a solid glimpse of how the world really works.
It is nice to see someone else that shares the exact same opinions, and that the math checks because not many even want to consider it as it defies pretty much their entire belief system. Now I don't feel so alone in these ideas anymore, and it's great to know that.
The closest I had to people having the same ideas is the people that believe in simulation theory because simulation theory is pretty much the same thing.
Simulation theory is also no different than anything any major religion has been saying all alone, it is all about the wording, but the concepts are the exact same.
Except simulation theory doesn't cover the individual rendering part. Simply put, simulation theory is accurate, but it dismisses that our individual consciousness do work as a network for us to be able to interact with it.
The old saying we all know that "the sound" a tree that falls makes, doesn't exist when no one is there to hear it is actually true because no one is rendering it.
This solves quantum physics because it perfectly explains why particles behave so randomly, and that is because they are rendering-depending, and we the conscious are the ones making the rendering, so they will behave accordingly to whatever reality they are trying to accommodate, whether is ours, or another on top of another.
Within this fake reality I also do believe everything is alive, even inanimated objects and corpses because they are all made up of the same pixels which is basically energy, which is basically information, and which is basically nothing at the same time because it is just rendering.
It is very simple stuff if you believe it, I feel the newer generations that will grow up with better AR and better VR than the one we have will understand it right away because that stuff clearly shows it.
I have tried to make people understand this, and many may understand it without really agreeing because they are connected to The Matrix, and I know that if they truly understood it they would believe it too because once you see it you can't unsee it. It's definitely there, meaning there is really nothing there just our awareness.
This also adds to the experience of dying because I do believe that when people die consciousness enters to a wider spectrum, like a reality outside this one, like being in a dream of a dream.
This is hard for people to believe because they attach their sense of self to their brains, for example on how people with Alzheimer loses their relationship with society and family, or people that has suffered brain damage through accidents.
But to me that's just like losing an arm or a leg, you cannot longer do things you were able to do before, but you are still consciousness.
In other words the brain is the arm or the leg that allows you to make those labels through memories, but that's not you, those are just labels, just a function, like walking or grabbing something.
And when people die they lose those labels, so it is basically like when people have an orgasm they have a moment of clarity where you realize banging that chick wasn't that important, but before you came that was all you were thinking about.
So it is no surprising why the French call orgasm "La Petite Morte" because it is basically the same thing as dying just in a smaller sense. I imagine the experience of dying is basically the same just broader.
Back in December when I saw the movie Tenet it clicked with me because it is exactly the kind of weird crap that reality is capable to produce once you know space and time are just perception too.
That, and also the idea of leaving stuff for posterity which is why I wanted to write this somewhere. Even if the site is taken down someday, once something is on the Internet, it stays, there are always ways to trace it back.
People would think that little comments here and there are insignificant, but they are not, they are all part of a larger record for posterity.
People can also argue that no one has the mental capabilities to care for little details or random useless comments over a YouTube video for example, and that any comment is basically private because so many people are doing the same thing.
Well, what people aren't considering is that posterity won't need to do all the work, the work will be done by AI, and by the way AI is advancing it is not surprising that collecting large amounts of data and making sense of it can be a simpler task than people may think, and that's why comments here and there actually do have some value in the long term.
It is all a record of what we were and what we have become, and all the small things that lead to larger ones, so they are important because they explain the process, and it is even more relevant the stuff our generation writes because we were the first. For posterity we are "the ancient" ones that saw reality in a very unique way because of our perspective.
At some point maybe we will be able to trace back information erased by time itself too, even bring people back. There is literally no limit of what humans can accomplish within a reality where everything is possible because nothing is real per se, and everything is just the color that we give it.
This is what I call optimal positivism, that at the end concepts like love always win because that's what we are made of, philosophy.
But that's a thought too long to write about because it deals on how ideas produced in the imagination really do lead to tangible reality, which ironically it is the only thing I believe to actually be real, so I hope someday someone can make the math for that too because I guarantee it will check out as well.
