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The notion that reality is something other than we think it is goes far back in philosophy, including Plato and his Parable of the Cave, which claimed reality was merely shadows of real objects on a cave wall.
Willie Kool wrote:IMO the only thing of value in that article is -The notion that reality is something other than we think it is goes far back in philosophy, including Plato and his Parable of the Cave, which claimed reality was merely shadows of real objects on a cave wall.
The rest, nothing but some Sci-Fi fanboys wasting research $.
columbia wrote:Willie Kool wrote:IMO the only thing of value in that article is -The notion that reality is something other than we think it is goes far back in philosophy, including Plato and his Parable of the Cave, which claimed reality was merely shadows of real objects on a cave wall.
The rest, nothing but some Sci-Fi fanboys wasting research $.
Why not be open to the idea?
viva la ben wrote:What is real?
How do you define real?
Rylan wrote:I miss the philosophy thread. I also like thinking of alternate ways in how time and space works. Like everything happening is on a sort of time delay and we are nothing but memories.
MWB wrote:Rylan wrote:I miss the philosophy thread. I also like thinking of alternate ways in how time and space works. Like everything happening is on a sort of time delay and we are nothing but memories.
What happened to the philosophy thread?
tifosi77 wrote:Biggest plot hole in "The Matrix"....... why did the simulated world even have computers at all? Why didn't the machines simply make everyone believe it was 7th century Europe? Without computers in the Matrix, Trinity never would have been able to make contact with Neo.
MWB wrote:Rylan wrote:I miss the philosophy thread. I also like thinking of alternate ways in how time and space works. Like everything happening is on a sort of time delay and we are nothing but memories.
What happened to the philosophy thread?
What if everything — all of us, the world, the universe — was not real? What if everything we are, know and do was really just someone's computer simulation?
Sarcastic wrote:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/50232422/ns/technology_and_science-science/
What if everything — all of us, the world, the universe — was not real? What if everything we are, know and do was really just someone's computer simulation?
The notion that our reality was some kid on a couch in the far future playing with a computer game like a gigantic Sim City, or Civilization, and we are the player's characters, isn't new. But some physicists now think they know of a way to test the concept. Three of them propose to test reality by simulating the simulators.
Kraftster wrote:What if everything — all of us, the world, the universe — was not real? What if everything we are, know and do was really just someone's computer simulation?
Isn't that what approximately 90% of the U.S. thinks (more or less)?
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