It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
Originally posted by ExquisitExamplE
I don't think you know that with any certainty, and to make such a statement and exclude the possibility of anything else is just foolish. Your post came across as very pompous, at least to me, and your response to Faiol further reinforces this.
Originally posted by Raider of Truth
reply to post by ExquisitExamplE
agreed..so there is nothing to fear from death then?
Originally posted by kindred
www.Indiadaily has plenty of imagination but no credibility whatsoever. If we are living in some kind of simulation or holographic universe, then I would like to ask the creator if there's any good plots in the pipeline, because quite frankly the current one sucks. Big "G" needs to hire a decent script writer, or maybe you should just call it a day & pull the plug.
Originally posted by mattifikation
With absolute certainty? No. Nothing is absolute.
However, if I take what I can observe and make a conclusion from that, I come to the conclusion that what we're experiencing right now is reality. I can't come to any other conclusion unless one of two things happens:
1. I observe something else that changes things, and can't be explained as a hallucination or some other form of altered perception, or;
2. I make wild assumptions that are based on nothing more than fantastical wishes and have no basis in factual observation.
Sorry, but once again, I have to stick with my idea that the world around us is reality. Anyone who spends their life waiting to go somewhere after they're dead is destined to go nowhere while they're alive.
The Cartesian theater is a derisive term coined by philosopher Daniel Dennett to pointedly refer to the defining aspect of Cartesian materialism, which he considers to be the often unacknowledged remnants of Cartesian dualism in modern materialistic theories of the mind.
Descartes originally claimed that consciousness involves an immaterial soul, which observes a representation of the world in the pineal gland of the brain. Under this notion, the soul plays the role of a homunculus, a creature with self-directed will power.
Originally posted by N3krostatic
Definitely worth S&F'ing. I have quite frequently found myself questioning theories such as this and thinking about this type of subject in great depth. I ultimately put myself into a daze when I think too hard on this subject and those like it. I feel something like this is possible. I am not saying this is the way it is but that on a much bigger and hidden level something similar to this could very well be happening.
Yeah I know it sounds like the matrix all over again but it is just so damned interesting to think about. I find myself thinking about this type of subject for hours and hours. When I forget it something always seems to pull my mind back to it like this thread.......Virtual existences always fascinated me.
Very interesting!
And now I am provided hours of thinking!
Originally posted by mattifikation
However, if I take what I can observe and make a conclusion from that, I come to the conclusion that what we're experiencing right now is reality.
Sorry, but once again, I have to stick with my idea that the world around us is reality.
Originally posted by Electro38
are you people for real?
Originally posted by mattifikation
I'm sorry, but that just sounds like a bunch of wishful thinking from lesser three dimensional beings who wish they were something more than that.
We aren't any part of a Type IV civilization. We're not even a Type I civilization. You can approach life one of two ways: You can accept that we have a long way to go, and help work towards that... or you can hide from the truth and immerse yourself in delusions of grandeur, accomplishing absolutely nothing in the meantime.
Your choice.
except that life and death is not real and is just an illusion.
Titen-Sxull
Good one, perhaps we're all inside one giant remake by a terrible director.