Lets look at this illusion we call reality another way...

We never really touch anything,it's just the interaction of electrons that we are actually making contact with.We can't see the atomic structure of physical matter all around us.We can't hear a dog's whistle.We can't see gamma rays.We can't see x-rays.We can't see radio waves.We can't see television signals,...ect,ect,ect,

Take away light "photons" and everything becomes invisible...

This really is a very hard truth to face...Everything we see,hear,touch,taste and smell is taking place within our brains and nowhere else...

Originally posted by blocula
Lets look at this illusion we call reality another way...

We never really touch anything,it's just the interaction of electrons that we are actually making contact with.We can't see the atomic structure of physical matter all around us.We can't hear a dog's whistle.We can't see gamma rays.We can't see x-rays.We can't see radio waves.We can't see television signals,...ect,ect,ect,

Take away light "photons" and everything becomes invisible...

This really is a very hard truth to face...Everything we see,hear,touch,taste and smell is taking place within our brains and nowhere else...

Dog wistles, TVsignals X-rays Gamma rays were produced by something physical and they all can be detected with our technology so they are all limited to the laws of physical natural realm. If you take away protons the reason you cant see anything is because you no longer exist or had you forgotten your atomic structure has protons as well.

there are plenty of people who cannot handle reality that is why sites like ATS is attractive to some. A place where people who cannot deal with the reality of things go to hide among conspiracy theories and UFO and illusion/delusional ideas and flights of fancy. So as to ignore the reality of life.

Go deliver a baby. I don't mean have a baby, get on the receiving end and deliver a baby and tell me that it is all an illusion. That is real brother Real as it gets.

It is a fact that we don't see all there is before us, our eyes ability is limited to see this dimension only, our brains filter out other imformation that it deems is unnecessary. What we conceive as reality in our minds may all be an illusion created by our mind, thus becoming the greatest lie of all.

It is true that we alone are the sole architect who can create and form our reality.

Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
M.C. Esche

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. ~Francis Bacon

It is all an illusion, a vision of what was, is, could be, an conception of a thought brought into reality by the wandering of an ever restless mind.

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
Sigmund Freud

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
Jules de Gaultier

Everything you can imagine is real.
Pablo Picasso

A sufficiently powerful simulation could make its inhabitants think that erasing proof of its existence is difficult. This would mean that the computer actually has an easy time of erasing glitches, but we all think that changing reality requires great power.

One could possibly take miracles and paranormal activity as software bugs especially those which seem to have a negative effect on one; this notion has been explored in The Matrix, where déjà vu is considered a sign of crude alteration to the system; and Animatrix where software glitches are concentrated in a house which the neighbors call "haunted", subsequently corrected by the Agents. A possible exploit could regard demons and evil spirits as the 'hackers' who attempt to take advantage of this system.

Taken one step further, the "fine grained" elements of our world could themselves be simulated since we never see the sub-atomic particles due to our inherent physical limitations. In order to see such particles we rely on other instruments which appear to magnify or translate that information into a format our limited senses are able to view: computer print out, lens of a microscope, etc.

Therefore, we essentially take on faith that they're an accurate portrayal of the fine grained world which appears to exist in a realm beyond our natural senses. Assuming the sub-atomic could also be simulated then the processing power required to generate a realistic world would be greatly reduced.

Some of the people in a simulated reality may be automatons, philosophical zombies, or 'bots' added to the simulation to make it more realistic or interesting or challenging. Indeed, it is conceivable that every person other than oneself is a bot. Bostrom called this a "me-simulation", in which oneself is the only sovereign lifeform, or at least the only inhabitant who entered the simulation from outside.

In addition to ancestor-simulations, one may also consider the possibility of more selective simulations that include only a small group of humans or a single individual. The rest of humanity would then be zombies or "shadow-people" – humans simulated only at a level sufficient for the fully simulated people not to notice anything suspicious.


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Blocula,

You still haven't got it. you cannot be deceived into an illusion via the use of higher technologies without your consent or will. So in that case, they have to make themselves known to us and then get our permission to deceive us into believing this life as an illusion.

And why would any of us agree to this life as an illusion is ludicrous. We would agree to something a bit more rewarding and stimulating than the world as we know it today with war, murder, rape, greed, and rampant self-centeredness.

The illusion is your belief in an illusion, and as far as any illusion goes it would be the end of your nose. After that reality hit. You will know it at death which is no Illusion.

Are we living in an illusion?

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Actually there are several different orders of illusions that we live by.

The human brain is a virtual reality machine. The world outside our bodies is not perceived directly - the incoming data is transformed into small units of electrical and chemical information, and is only later put together by our brains into a convincing model of the world that is then perceived as a single experienced event.

Another order of illusion that we live by is social: the moral codes, ways of perceiving what is the correct, sane, right ways of behaving and thinking. These are drummed into us from such an early age that our respective social orders and beliefs appear to us as normal, or 'natural'. They are not. They are social constructs, which vary wildly from time and place. They are illusions, which make the job of living in the world into a smoother transaction (for some at least).

Originally posted by ChesterJohn

Originally posted by blocula
Lets look at this illusion we call reality another way...

We never really touch anything,it's just the interaction of electrons that we are actually making contact with.We can't see the atomic structure of physical matter all around us.We can't hear a dog's whistle.We can't see gamma rays.We can't see x-rays.We can't see radio waves.We can't see television signals,...ect,ect,ect,

Take away light "photons" and everything becomes invisible...

This really is a very hard truth to face...Everything we see,hear,touch,taste and smell is taking place within our brains and nowhere else...

Dog wistles, TVsignals X-rays Gamma rays were produced by something physical and they all can be detected with our technology so they are all limited to the laws of physical natural realm. If you take away protons the reason you cant see anything is because you no longer exist or had you forgotten your atomic structure has protons as well.

there are plenty of people who cannot handle reality that is why sites like ATS is attractive to some. A place where people who cannot deal with the reality of things go to hide among conspiracy theories and UFO and illusion/delusional ideas and flights of fancy. So as to ignore the reality of life.

Go deliver a baby. I don't mean have a baby, get on the receiving end and deliver a baby and tell me that it is all an illusion. That is real brother Real as it gets.

When a child's born it's organic with a being of light and spirit inside it.
You don't really see the latter as much as the former...

The "3-D Holographic Universe" idea that has been bandied about by physicists lately does NOT include Aliens running a 3-D projector.

The 3-D hologram idea is basically an analogy. As the idea goes, the 3 dimensions we see inside this universe is actually all made up of 2-D information that lies the outer shell of that universe. It would be a bit more complicated than that, but in essence our 3-D notion of nature may only be something like a hologram.

If this idea is true, then there is no need for Aliens running Holographic projectors to create illusions. Rather, it may be just the way nature is.

"a planet of playthings we dance on the strings of powers we cannot perceive"

Freewill...by the group,Rush.

We perceive the ufos and flying saucers as being real,as much as our five senses will allow us to.But if we could go up to a landed saucer and hit it with a hammer,the hammer might pass right through it,or actually imbed itself in it,as if the object of unknown origin were almost soft,not quite all the way into our reality,within two different dimensions simultaneously,ours and the aliens...