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reply posted on 12-1-2012 @ 01:54 AM by Ajax84
reply to post by ~Lucidity



Well you can touch things when you are in a dream also.

And it can exist when you aren't looking at it -at least partly. And the program behind it all is still there regardless, though not located in physical space.


reply posted on 12-1-2012 @ 01:55 AM by Ajax84
reply to post by NeoVain



I think I've seen that one before. It was real interesting. This is another good one.


reply posted on 12-1-2012 @ 01:57 AM by TomServo
Pticreply to post by ~Lucidity



Just like sight, touch is just another physical sense. Its a qualatative, quantative signal sent from nerves, then received and interpreted by the brain... Just the same as cones and rods in your eye are used to sense an image and send that wignal through the optic nerve... Etc. All 5 senses can be reduced to a signal that is perceived by the brain.


reply posted on 12-1-2012 @ 01:57 AM by RUSSO
reply to post by Ajax84



Problem is, if we are able to use technology to discover that the universe is not a virtual world how can we prove the controller/programmer of the VR world didn't trick us into this discovery by manipulating the technology.

A question first pondered by Descartes and by philosophers ever since.

S&F btw.


reply posted on 12-1-2012 @ 02:08 AM by Ajax84
reply to post by RUSSO



"if we are able to use technology to discover that the universe is not a virtual world how can we prove the controller/programmer of the VR world didn't trick us into this discovery by manipulating the technology."

Well fortunately we managed to side-step that one, because our technology allowed us to discover that it is IN FACT virtual!


reply posted on 12-1-2012 @ 02:08 AM by Ajax84
reply to post by TomServo



"All 5 senses can be reduced to a signal that is perceived by the brain."

What is real? How do you define real? If by real you mean...


reply posted on 12-1-2012 @ 02:15 AM by stopmakingsense
reply to post by Ajax84



thanks for this now i have even less idea what my next move is going to be

if i stay in bed ill definatly be in another reality when i fall asleeep
and
if i get out of the bed i might still be in the same reality asleep but out of the bed
or i could get out of the bed now without falling asleep and then ill be in another reality i cant be convinced is real..

thanks alot

or you could be asleep dreaming that im in bed asleep or awake.

thanks
my head hurts
thanks


reply posted on 12-1-2012 @ 02:16 AM by LongbottomLeaf
reply to post by Ajax84



Wanna blow he theory away? Look in a mirror or take a picture behind you, it will look exactly the same.



reply posted on 12-1-2012 @ 02:23 AM by domasio
Originally posted by LongbottomLeaf
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post by Ajax84



Wanna blow he theory away? Look in a mirror or take a picture behind you, it will look exactly the same.


That's hardly a valid argument. If the world was indeed virtual, then a mirror would be programmed to show exactly what is programmed to be behind the person looking into the mirror. It would be like merging a database with a spreadsheet, only you would be merging the data of what should be in the "room" with the "mirror."


reply posted on 12-1-2012 @ 02:24 AM by RUSSO
reply to post by Ajax84




Well fortunately we managed to side-step that one, because our technology allowed us to discover that it is IN FACT virtual!


Does God use Windows, Mac or Linux?


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