Zen: there is no scientific method which can show that you are not within some sort of simulator
RobertS: Reality exists independent of perception.
Funny, I can agree with both of you. Are you sure you don't agree with each other?
Sure the Matrix is science fiction, but an excellent allegory of what reality "really" is, something beyond our conscious perception.
Since science is a slave to perception, it does have limitations within its own cosmos. The only way you can trully define the cosmos is if you remove yourself from it.
Zen: there is no scientific method which can show that you are not within some sort of simulator
RobertS: Reality exists independent of perception.
Funny, I can agree with both of you. Are you sure you don't agree with each other?
Sure the Matrix is science fiction, but an excellent allegory of what reality "really" is, something beyond our conscious perception.
Since science is a slave to perception, it does have limitations within its own cosmos. The only way you can trully define the cosmos is if you remove yourself from it.
But if the cosmos is all there is...
yes and no....
if I am the dreamer and there is nothing to know for me but my dreaming...then my reality, the cause of the dream is not identicle to the dream.... if I am reality dreaming or perceiving myself....my perceptions are still not identicle to the reality inspiring them, though there is a 1:1 corrospondance.... gets tricky.
from personal experience and theorizing I conclude that this realm I am in is one of many possible and I am sharing it with semi-independent aspects of my own total self....
just like one computer can be running several programs in parallel or side by side, so too, I see you and everyone else as individual programs being run on the one reality machine....the quantum computer I call GOD or the Generator Of Diversity...or Generator of Dreams in my own case.
