Morpheus: “This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill — the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill — you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.”
The question is not helpful.
You are asking the philosophical question of what is real, what is knowledge, what is experience, free will, fate, destiny… I can save you allot of time non of the answers are satisfying and in my opinion all philosophy ends in the absurd. In the end reason fails and a leap is required that cannot be reasoned. Words create boundaries and if taken to far destroys the thing the words can only point to. The map is not the territory.
“in order to change something you must first accept it.”
In order to change reality, you must first accept that it IS reality (even if we end up being wrong and it really isn’t; it functions as if it is, so that’s what matters).
Because no one would be so stupid as to program someone so screwed up? haha.
Seriously, does it matter if we are real or not? does it change the situation in any way? i mean, if the entire world is the figment of someone’s imagination… to our perception, we are here anyway, it is real to us, and we get to live it/experience it even if it’s an ilusion.
If you believe you’re a computer program that’s your choice to make. You could be right, you could be wrong and you will probably never find out. People believe in all kind of things, that’s why you differentiate between religion and science.
I am a computer program on another planet alright. The trouble is that that computer language is not fully understood on this planet yet, so I just don’t fit in here. The only solution of course is to go back to the other planet. 🙂
Descartes’ cornerstone of philosophy “I think, therefore I am” pretty much covers the bases for me.
I have a consciousness although no one but me can be sure of that. But that’s enough for me to establish that I exist. I may well be a computer that is programmed to think it’s alive, but that doesn’t change anything. Whether I’m a human, a computer, a ghost, a rat or an amoeba, I think, therefore I am. And I’ll tell you one thing, it fucking sucks for me.
I heard of this answer. question is if frog think the well is the world, is that thinking is true?
Even if it doesn’t change living style of a human, we need to find what is the fact.
You’re right, even though it doesn’t make a difference I wish I knew. Pain is pain, whether it’s real or an illusion… but if you know it’s an illusion, it’s easier to bear.
Like if someone blindfolds you and says they’re burning your hand with a hot iron, it’ll be horrible. But if you look and see that they are just tricking you with an ice cube, suddenly it doesn’t hurt as much.
It would be great to find out that this whole stupid world is just a videogame and nothing matters.
Its understandable that people might feel like they are a computer program. By the age of 5 by nature and nurture were pretty much programmed. The way we will be able to experience are life, how we will feel about it, our sense of self is set and won’t change much. So yes we are pretty destined to experience any choice we make, if we make any, just as we are programmed and no amount of consciousnesses of the program will change it.
I think therefore I am…. what? My thoughts? what is consciousness.
What is the point of being aware of our thoughts, our “program”, when there very little we can do to change it. Seems cruel to me
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Morpheus: “This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill — the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill — you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.”
The question is not helpful.
You are asking the philosophical question of what is real, what is knowledge, what is experience, free will, fate, destiny… I can save you allot of time non of the answers are satisfying and in my opinion all philosophy ends in the absurd. In the end reason fails and a leap is required that cannot be reasoned. Words create boundaries and if taken to far destroys the thing the words can only point to. The map is not the territory.
“in order to change something you must first accept it.”
In order to change reality, you must first accept that it IS reality (even if we end up being wrong and it really isn’t; it functions as if it is, so that’s what matters).
Because no one would be so stupid as to program someone so screwed up? haha.
Seriously, does it matter if we are real or not? does it change the situation in any way? i mean, if the entire world is the figment of someone’s imagination… to our perception, we are here anyway, it is real to us, and we get to live it/experience it even if it’s an ilusion.
if I was a computer program I’d probly be Linux. simply because I kno nothing about it and it’s alien to me. pun most def intended
If you believe you’re a computer program that’s your choice to make. You could be right, you could be wrong and you will probably never find out. People believe in all kind of things, that’s why you differentiate between religion and science.
lol. That was good. 🙂
I am a computer program on another planet alright. The trouble is that that computer language is not fully understood on this planet yet, so I just don’t fit in here. The only solution of course is to go back to the other planet. 🙂
Descartes’ cornerstone of philosophy “I think, therefore I am” pretty much covers the bases for me.
I have a consciousness although no one but me can be sure of that. But that’s enough for me to establish that I exist. I may well be a computer that is programmed to think it’s alive, but that doesn’t change anything. Whether I’m a human, a computer, a ghost, a rat or an amoeba, I think, therefore I am. And I’ll tell you one thing, it fucking sucks for me.
I heard of this answer. question is if frog think the well is the world, is that thinking is true?
Even if it doesn’t change living style of a human, we need to find what is the fact.
You’re right, even though it doesn’t make a difference I wish I knew. Pain is pain, whether it’s real or an illusion… but if you know it’s an illusion, it’s easier to bear.
Like if someone blindfolds you and says they’re burning your hand with a hot iron, it’ll be horrible. But if you look and see that they are just tricking you with an ice cube, suddenly it doesn’t hurt as much.
It would be great to find out that this whole stupid world is just a videogame and nothing matters.
Its understandable that people might feel like they are a computer program. By the age of 5 by nature and nurture were pretty much programmed. The way we will be able to experience are life, how we will feel about it, our sense of self is set and won’t change much. So yes we are pretty destined to experience any choice we make, if we make any, just as we are programmed and no amount of consciousnesses of the program will change it.
I think therefore I am. Simple.
I think therefore I am…. what? My thoughts? what is consciousness.
What is the point of being aware of our thoughts, our “program”, when there very little we can do to change it. Seems cruel to me