Riz Virk, The Simulation Hypothesis Beyond Materialism |442|

"The truth is, you don't struggle with depression, you struggle with the reality we live in."

Thanks to you doing the Riz interview, I decided to design my way out!
nice one!

thanks for the kind words but I'm certainly not worthy of turtle status :) in fact, I'm constantly humbled by how smart other people are. I guess that's what keeps me excited about skeptiko. Riz is a super smart guy and he's fun to talk to... especially when the conversation gets beyond the level one stuff that he's used to talking about... same with Dolan... same with Don Hoffman and many others.

one of the takeaways for me during the last year of skeptiko is the widening gap between folks like this versus what's going on in Academia (recent guests?)... and even more so with the"Skeptics." then again, I'm not sure the pseudoskeptic thing was ever real :)

do you guys remember James Randi... think back about all the "smart people" who drawn into that bullshit. remember the 20-foot banners of his image that he used to display at his annual conferences. it all looks so insanely cultish as we look back on it.
 
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Can someone pls point me to the part of the interview where the concept of augmented_________________ came up? I have listened twice and missed it both times. Merci buckets!
 
Augmented comes up a few times... am doing my third run through and will note the timestamp when it comes up - will update in this post, Sam. ahhh, "augmented reality" is in the intro at 1:30 and the complete discussion plays out at around 9:45 (Alex states, at 10:58, "augmented consciousness" / "augmented reality").

Alex again at 47:57... "the augmented reality, augmented consciousness kind of thing."
 
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I have listened twice and missed it both times. Merci buckets![/QUOTE]
I brought it up a couple of times but we didn't talk about it all that much.
riz talks about it more in his book
 
Can someone pls point me to the part of the interview where the concept of augmented_________________ came up? I have listened twice and missed it both times. Merci buckets!
Just so we're all on the same page... if you're using the latest "chip in your brain" technology I would call that augmented consciousness. The players in The hunger games movie were in an augmented reality when they were playing the game.
 
Your answer is simple... leave the simulation and don't come back. You can also do your part that these fears do not become reality, by action but perhaps even more effectively, by the consciousness you are personally responsible for feeding back into the sub-reality and Greater Reality.
RUN FOR YOUR LIVES, COUCH POTATO FOOLs!

You mean, like that?
 
Gosh Mishelle... nothing superior about it as the more I explore, the less I know. My only point was that I came from a materialistic background, then found religion, then found "spirituality" then... after those fell apart (for me), I had a few experiences known as "direct apprehension" and was forever "screwed." My only point was that the words made sense to me after I had those experiences. It doen't make me superior... in fact, the takeaway for me only suggests an idea of hierarchy is self-delusion.
 
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Gosh Mishelle... nothing superior about it as the more I explore, the less I know. My only point was that I came from a materialistic background, the found religion, then found "spirituality" then... after those fell apart (for me), I had a few experiences known as "direct apprehension" and was forever "screwed." My only point was that the words made sense to me after I had those experiences. It doen't make me superior... in fact, the takeaway for me only suggests an idea of hierarchy is self-delusion.

Coming from a position that is not explicitly superior means asking authentic questions, showing empathy, wanting to find common ground. I have not found that to be my experience from your posts, for the most part. So, gosh, why do I have the experience of not being heard by you, and mostly being preached to by most in this forum, generally speaking? I’d spend more time here if I didn’t feel i’m Constantly needing to battle and be on the defensive. Are you generating conversation with your word salad, or dismissing it?
 
Coming from a position that is not explicitly superior means asking authentic questions, showing empathy, wanting to find common ground. I have not found that to be my experience from your posts, for the most part. So, gosh, why do I have the experience of not being heard by you, and mostly being preached to by most in this forum, generally speaking? I’d spend more time here if I didn’t feel i’m Constantly needing to battle and be on the defensive. Are you generating conversation with your word salad, or dismissing it?

Well... think about this. By calling someone's written expression, "word salad," one might draw the conclusion the one calling it such considered it gibberish. That's the way I interpreted it, but I am happy to admit I was wrong if, in fact, I was.

As for the music video... I really liked the music and I found his message very appropriate for our times. You would be very surprised to know that I have studied all sorts of conspiracy theory material for two decades. There have been many conspiracies I have opened my mind to to varying degrees. In fact, some of the biggest ones.

I will take a guess... you are a Christian. And not just an ordinary Christian, but perhaps evangelical... perhaps you believe the apocalypse is immanent. You would be very surprised to know that I deeply respect all of that.

I read many of your posts all the way through... that should tell you something.

And lastly, though it really shouldn't matter, but knowing how cruel forum posting can be (and be taken cruelly), I apologize that I am not always more careful not to be offensive and if I were perceived as such to you, I am sorry... from the heart. My eight years on forums has thickened my skin but I also can push buttons needlesly. Again, I am sorry.
 
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This so much belongs here...

Terence McKenna - Self Transforming Elf Machines


Is our experience of physicality a sub-reality (as an inner reality within a Grand Reality) surrounded by a bride like "ring type reality" made up of "machine elves?"

Are the "machine elves" essentially machine language to our operating system of our inner sub-reality bridging us to final reality that has no language, no form?
 
I have already mentioned Riz's interesting suggestion that quantum indeterminacy is an indication that we are in a simulation. I think it is worth noting that if that is true, the 'real people' running the simulation, can't share the same physical world as we do. This is because Quantum Indeterminacy comes from the wave property of matter, and as I mentioned, that determines the whole of chemistry and much more - so you can't have a world like ours without Quantum Indeterminacy.

David
 
Augmented comes up a few times... am doing my third run through and will note the timestamp when it comes up - will update in this post, Sam. ahhh, "augmented reality" is in the intro at 1:30 and the complete discussion plays out at around 9:45 (Alex states, at 10:58, "augmented consciousness" / "augmented reality").

Alex again at 47:57... "the augmented reality, augmented consciousness kind of thing."
Many thanks, Sam!!
 
Just so we're all on the same page... if you're using the latest "chip in your brain" technology I would call that augmented consciousness. The players in The hunger games movie were in an augmented reality when they were playing the game.
In this context the concept is clear as can be, ty.
 
I am reading his book right now (it is worth buying IMHO).

He defines Augmented Reality as a system that takes what you are looking at and shows you it with additions - such as some creature standing on your actual table!

That sounds pretty creepy to me - LOL!

I can't find "augmented consciousness" using the Kindle search tool.

David
 
Remember the game people were playing where they navigated their real reality on some sort of treasure hunt or whatever? And that some people got killed following the reality projected by their phone when a real car slammed into them?

Found it -

Pokemon GO -

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/27/pokemon_go_caused_car_accidents_and_deaths/

Playing augmented reality while driving in the real world cost billions, say boffins

Pokemon GO - Look at this!

Pokémon GO Death Tracker

http://pokemongodeathtracker.com/
 
I am reading his book right now (it is worth buying IMHO).

He defines Augmented Reality as a system that takes what you are looking at and shows you it with additions - such as some creature standing on your actual table!

That sounds pretty creepy to me - LOL!

I can't find "augmented consciousness" using the Kindle search tool.

David
my term.
 
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