The Most Terrifying Thought Experiment of All Time
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Re: The Most Terrifying Thought Experiment of All Time
by eric » Sat Nov 01, 2014 8:13 am
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
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Re: The Most Terrifying Thought Experiment of All Time
by spacemonkey » Mon Nov 03, 2014 12:59 pm
Do you mean y'all are just a fignewton of my imagination?
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Re: The Most Terrifying Thought Experiment of All Time
by eric » Tue Nov 04, 2014 11:29 am
It's actually a pretty interesting thought. Some very plausible scenarios are as follows:
1. When you die, the universe ceases to exit.
2. We're all in a computer simulation, and we're not really "alive"
3. Even are thoughts are simulated to be real, and we think that we are thinking, we aren't actually "conscious". And it may be that animals are conscious as well, just to a lesser degree.
4. The real "us" is already dead/dying and the brain is able to reconstruct reality by slowing down time and recreating a life that we may have or thought we could have lived.
5. Every thinking being is a multi-verse unto itself.
I'm not endorsing any of these, put I kinda like thinking about them.
1. When you die, the universe ceases to exit.
2. We're all in a computer simulation, and we're not really "alive"
3. Even are thoughts are simulated to be real, and we think that we are thinking, we aren't actually "conscious". And it may be that animals are conscious as well, just to a lesser degree.
4. The real "us" is already dead/dying and the brain is able to reconstruct reality by slowing down time and recreating a life that we may have or thought we could have lived.
5. Every thinking being is a multi-verse unto itself.
I'm not endorsing any of these, put I kinda like thinking about them.
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
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Re: The Most Terrifying Thought Experiment of All Time
by The Dharma Bum » Tue Nov 04, 2014 12:24 pm
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