Inception

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Brown wrote:

SamBee wrote:

Well… concerning the religious angle, I’ve always found it interesting how little we question reality. We admit the existence of a veil, and a spirit world, and other realms, but not that this reality might be bogus.

I have always felt like this life is more of a complex ‘video game’ than anything else. It could be something like “the matrix” or “Inception” where we are plugged into a virtual reality that only exists in our consciousness. But even if we are here as flesh and blood, our body is still just an artificial self-healing carbon shell that our real consciousness (our soul or spirit) gets inserted into for the duration of our life. So we are controlling something that isn’t really us to try to experience an alternate reality. That’s a video game in my book. What I can’t figure out is how many extra lives we have and how many human shells we each get to control. Is it one of those games where you can keep restarting until you win, or is it 1 go and you are done? Are we all playing a big multiplayer game at once, or is everyone else on this planet a simulation. Since I only personally know maybe 100 people very well, maybe those are the 100 that are playing right with me and the other 5.99999 billion are simulated. I don’t know. Maybe your great grandpa, your favorite high school teacher, college mentor, and best friend growing up are all the same guy.

Man, this stuff blows my mind at all the possibilities.

Yeah, VR and the video game have been mentioned many times in this context. I suspect this is the current manifestation of this idea.

Before, it was a dream, or the thought of a giant or god.

Check out this quotations… wonderful…

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Zhuangzi

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Once upon a time, I, Chuang Chou, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was Chou. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man. Between a man and a butterfly there is necessarily a distinction. The transition is called the transformation of material things.

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A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.

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Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream. And yet fools think they are awake, presuming to know that they are rulers or herdsmen. How dense!

Like I say, Inception introduces these ideas to a wider audience, but Mormonism doesn’t even want to touch this idea. It seems to think much of the universe, and one reality, not illusory reality and the idea of a multiverse.

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