AREWE EARTHLINGS LIVING IN A COMPUTER SIMULATION?

 AREWE EARTHLINGS LIVING IN A COMPUTER SIMULATION?

WELL, NOTHING NEW IN THAT THEORY

THINK  Plato 

• Died: 347 BC, Athens
• we are in a cave and it is the reflections of the sun on (computer images) which dictate our reality
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• Proponents of a simulated universe theory like Musk and popular astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson often point to the increasingly-complex capabilities of today's computer systems as proof that reality can be emulated. In a simulated universe, which was made popular by British philosopher Nicholas Bostrom in 2003, it's very likely that some advanced future civilization developed equally-advanced computer simulations of past civilizations — past here referring to our present, obviously — in one giant virtual reality experience. Supposedly, these advanced computer models run in a fashion like today's computer games, many of which produce an interactive simulation of ancient civilizations.

sOMETIMES PEOPLESAY THINGS

 SOMETIMES PEOPLE SAY THINGS NOT BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE

THEM BUT  BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE THEIR AUDIENCE WANTS

HEAR SUCH SOOTHING WORDS

ONE LIST ENER AVOWED 'OR GUSHED  TO ME THERE WAS A PLANGENT SORT OF THERENESS TO THE SPEAKERS WORDS, DIDN'T YOU THINK SO?'

'EH NO....'

WE ARE EITHER INFALLIBLE OR INCORRIGIBLE

 WE ARE EITHER INFALLIBLE  (ALWAYS GUARANTEED TO  BE RIGHT)

OR  INCORRIGIBLE ( NO ONE ELSE HAS A RIGHT TO CORRECT US SO WE REMAIN

INVULNERABLE TO CORRECTION)  WE FEEL OUR CRITICS ENGAGE

IN KIND OF INPROMPTU THEORIZING, SOMETIMES LACED WITH VITRIOL

SOME ARGUE THAT POP-UP TOASTERS ARE CONSCIOUS

 WELL.SOME PEOPLE ARE BONKERS

WE TEND TO THINK WE ARE MUCH MORE IMMUNE TO ERROR THAN WE ARE

WE

TEND TO THINK WE ARE MUCH MORE IMMUNE TO ERROR THAN WE ARE

MANY ARGUE THAT WE ARE GULLIBLE THEORIZERS BECAUSE THEY FEEL THERE

IS SO MUCH TO PONTIFICATE ABOUT

SUCH COSY COPLICITY TYPE  THINKING IS A TREACHEROUS INCUBATOR OF ERRORS

WHO ISN'T A STANDUP THESE DAYS? SAVE US FROM THE PLAGUE OF STAND UP COMEDIANS

The insatiable perfectionist and the less gifted

 For the insatiable perfectionist they should be prepared for those periodic storms of

defamation (usually from the less gifted)

After submitting your ESSAY

 After bending  over backwards to disarm critiques and  to meet the sceptic (teachers) on her/his own 

so called empirical high brow reflections....it is time  to  hand it over to power (REALITY) 

GREATER THAN  ONES SELF

how do we arrive aT certainties?

 one of the cornerstones of probability is how

we arrive at  certainties and we do so, in the main, through the devise of large numbers

Political powe

 Political power goes much deeper than one suspects; there are centres and invisible, little-known points of support; its true resistance, its true solidity is perhaps where one doesn't expect it.

Have we dedicated our lives to an illusion

 There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.

Daniel Dennett

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Yet, energy exists far beyond measurable capabilities. According to quantum mechanics, this is where heavenly realms, spiritual beings and unseen dimensions exist

 

String theory is mathematically exposing that our vast universe, as the Bible has been explaining for millennia, consists of light energy and multiple unseen dimensions. 

Humans can physically detect the spectrum of energy detectable by our physical senses. Humans can also measure energy detectable by our instruments of technology. Yet, energy exists far beyond measurable capabilities. According to quantum mechanics, evidence exposes that this is where heavenly realms, spiritual beings and unseen dimensions exist

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness

 Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that… Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more.

Samuel Beckett

I tried to groan, Help! Help!

 I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.

Samuel Beckett

certainty the last vestige of the despot

Shakaespeare on the BRAIN

 

I will show in Chapter 1 The History of the Brain, views on the brain have changed quite dramatically. And we don’t have to go too far back for evidence, for instance, Shakespeare always refers to the use of the brain, ’braining it’ as a demonstration of stupidity.  For Shakespeare, incidentally, true also of religious iconography, the heart with it dramatic, pulsing blood imagery was the seat of our souls, and the brain was a derided, dull instrument. 

But today the view of the brain has changed dramatically, and so has the language that accommodates it. Today, most people now accept that we are predisposed, ‘hardwired’ to behave in certain ways. But beyond the acceptance that we are hardwired to act in certain ways how is a book like Your Brain and you going to help the individual.  One way is by understanding that our brain silently operates a great deal of our lives without us being consciously aware.  For instance we are usually unaware of our breathing or heartbeats yet there are parts of the brain dedicated to these functions.  In an extension of this imagine this scenario.  You are sitting around a table at your next business meeting. Now the head honcho comes into the room, and you suddenly become renewed, alert.  Our cousins, the chimpanzee illustrates this predisposition very well.  In group gatherings their attention heightens when in the presence of the dominant male, illustrating how hardwired they are to status.

but I thought my brain was my mind?’

 

Yet despite such criticism I will argue that ‘Your Brian and You’ is a timely book in showing that understanding how your brain works will reap real benefits for your mind. The immediate response for many might be, ‘but I thought my brain was my mind?’  But the brain, to use an analogy, is essentially a muscle and the mind might be regarded as the means to how that muscle appears to yourself and others. So this book will point the reader to the advantages of understanding how your brain works and it is this deeper understanding which will aid your mind.

” a Frankenstein science, leading to a post-human future. So, you might well ask, is this brain science really the new Eldorado?

 

And are we really ready for a one of our character flaws to be described as a ‘wiring problem’.  And if you are feeling happy would it make you irritated if someone described your state of happiness as ‘a cascade of reward neurotransmitters’.  Or, your state of depression described as a ‘chemical imbalance’, or of some heroic act you did that imperilled your own safety as, was no more than your ‘special altruism-boosting, mirror neurons,’  impelling you to act.  Or the moral hazards of the criminal pleading innocent on the basis that his brain made him do it, ‘look at my brain scan’. For many this might conjure up Orwellian “thought crime.” a Frankenstein science, leading to a post-human future.  So, you might well ask, isc

yOUR BRAIN AND YOU

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And are we really ready for a one of our character flaws to be described as a ‘wiring problem’.  And if you are feeling happy would it make you irritated if someone described your state of happiness as ‘a cascade of reward neurotransmitters’.  Or, your state of depression described as a ‘chemical imbalance’, or of some heroic act you did that imperilled your own safety as, was no more than your ‘special altruism-boosting, mirror neurons,’  impelling you to act.  Or the moral hazards of the criminal pleading innocent on the basis that his brain made him do it, ‘look at my brain scan’. For many this might conjure up Orwellian “thought crime.” a Frankenstein science, leading to a post-human future.  So, you might well ask, is this brain science really the new Eldorado?

 

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• Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

  Albert Einstein

• I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics.

  Richard P. Feynman

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• If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics

 A photograph is just a tiny slice of a subject. A piece of them in a moment. It seems presumptuous to think you can get more than that.

Annie Leibovitz

 For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

Susan Sontag

 I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry.

Susan Sontag

 Whether or not there is a God, his or her handiwork is certainly not easy to understand.

 All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

Walter Benjamin

 To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

 I'm not sure at all that literature should be studied on the university level. ... Why should people study books? Isn't it rather silly to study Pride and Prejudice. Either you get it or you don't.

Susan Sontag

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 My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry.

societDy's kiss on your forehead.

 Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.

FREEDOM OF CHOICE DOES NOT EXIST....UNLESS

 A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

FREEDOM  OF CHOICE DOES NOT EXIST

UNLESS FREEDOM TO REFUSE IS ENSHRINED

IN IT

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

Momenr of truth has arrived

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Moment of truth

From the moment Trump won in November 2024, it was clear that Ukraine would be the first test of the transatlantic relationship and would determine the ability of Europeans and Americans to work together in the next four years. This cBeyond the Ukrainian crisis, this approach is part of a broader desire by the United States to fundamentally rethink its commitment to European defense.

Many people feel guilt and shame about their sexual fantasies.

  Many people feel guilt and shame about their sexual fantasies. But sexual fantasies are universal, normal, and harmless—even if they depict activities you'd never do in real life. 

Schools serve the same social functions as prisons

 Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.

Michel Foucault

Our origins

 vIt is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin 

The The HERD mentality in ideology

 The HERD mentality in ideology

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• Herd mentality, also known as mob mentality or crowd mentality, is a psychological phenomenon that significantly impacts human behavior. It occurs when individuals adopt the beliefs, behaviors, or attitudes of the majority in a group, often at the expense of their own judgment or individuality.

MMusk through DOGE unearthing the creepie crawlies that lie underneath the Democratic rock

 the current political task in a society like the USA is to criticize the working of institutions that are apparently the most neutral and independent, to criticize these institutions and attack them in such a way that the political violence that exercises itself obscurely through them becomes manifest, so that one can fight against them.

Musk through DOGE is unearthing the creepie crawlies that lie 

underneath the Democratic rock

Can CcGCan GOD be in two places at the same timeOD be in two places at the same tim

Can GOD be in two places at the same time and as the Universe has expanded - due to Inflation - for  billions  years resulting in trillions of planets s/he would need to be in more than two places

at the same time,  s/he would need to be in more than 2 places at  the  same travel faster than the 

speed of  light

No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

 Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

The futility of everything that comes to us from the media

 “The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain silent. Music, commercial breaks, news flashes, adverts, news broadcasts, movies, presenters—there is no alternative but to fill the screen; otherwise there would be an irremediable void. We are back in the Byzantine situation, where idolatry calls on a plethora of images to conceal from itself the fact that God no longer exists. That's why the slightest technical hitch, the slightest slip on the part of a presenter becomes so exciting, for it reveals the depth of the emptiness squinting out at us through this little window.”

― Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories

We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning

 We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.

PUTIN'S MISUNDERSTANDING OF WHAT MASCULINITY IS

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1. • • He who fights with imaginary monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster.

Search results"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster.

 It is not waging war on your own people AND 0THERS TILL THE DEATH TOLL COMES CLOSE TO

A MILLION WITH UNSPEAKABLE LOSS FOR THE FAMILIES IN THIS  MAD WAR

IT IS A MYSTERY WHY THE

RUSSIAN PEOPLE HAVE NOT RISEN UP  AGAINST THIS HUGE INJUSTICE ENACTED 

ON THEM

God is a synonym for Physics and Physics is a synonym for God

God is a synonym for Physics and Physics is a synonym for God we live and are part of the multiverse (many and varied Universes and the 'BIG BANG is just another story, or if you like another word 

of God

synonmyn = a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language, for example shut is a synonym of close:

Is God a valid scientific explanation?

Is God a valid scientific explanation? But God isn't a valid scientific explanation. The theory of the multiverse, instead, solves the mystery because it allows different universes to have different physical laws. So, it's not surprising that we should happen to see ourselves in one of the few universes that could support 'lif'e'.

Who will Trump line up at the ;'Traitors Gate' ?

There ae many that could line up = the so called from the 'Swamp' has been a fetid breeding ground for such types. 

However one hopes the deadly duo of Musk/Vardy will act as restraining advisers, for there is no need for

hasty decisions that might reflect poorly on  MAGA

Fear and guilt are critical to understanding how the “woke” evangelize.

 

Fear and guilt are critical to understanding how the “woke” evangelize. They succeed, he believes, by moral “narratives” above facts. What animates believers of this religion? McWhorter believes that it is not chiefly “money or power, but sheer purpose, in the basic sense of feeling like you matter and that your life has a meaningful agenda.” Narrative abovefactd  ntimidation and by terrifying people with the threat of being tagged racist: “We have become a nation of smart people attesting that they ‘get it’ while losing control of their bowels

Our universe has been expanding for 13.8 billion years.

 

. It explains the universe’s large-scale structure

Starting out as a singularity, the universe has been expanding for 13.8 billion years. (

Our best theory of the universe’s origin is the Big Bang. Yet it was modified in the 1980s to include another theory called inflation. In the first trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second, the cosmos ballooned from smaller than an atom to about the size of a grapefruit. That’s a whopping 10^78 times bigger. Inflating a red blood cell by the same amount would make it larger than the entire observable universe today.

As it was initially smaller than an atom, the infant universe would have been dominated by quantum fluctuations linked to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Inflation caused the universe to grow rapidly before these fluctuations had a chance to fade away. This concentrated energy into some areas rather than others — something astronomers believe acted as seeds around which material could gather to form the clusters of galaxies we observe now

Can something be in 2 places at the same time? Yes - in our Quantum world

 

 Objects can be in two places at once

Erwin Schrödinger used the idea of a cat in a box to simplify superposition. (Image credit: Mopic / Alamy Stock Photo)

Wave-particle duality is an example of superposition. That is, a quantum object existing in multiple states at once. An electron, for example, is both ‘here’ and ‘there’ simultaneously. It’s only once we do an experiment to find out where it is that it settles down into one or the other. 

This makes quantum physics all about probabilities. We can only say which state an object is most likely to be in once we look. These odds are encapsulated into a mathematical entity called the wave function. Making an observation is said to ‘collapse’ the wave function, destroying the superposition and forcing the object into just one of its many possible states.

This idea is behind the famous Schrödinger’s cat thought experiment. A cat in a sealed box has its fate linked to a quantum device. As the device exists in both states until a measurement is made, the cat is simultaneously alive and dead until we look.

Aregentina is a land of the most beautiful women

 Like Olivia Hussey who  played Juliet in Zeferelli's film of Romeo and Juliet

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