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Reality is a security overlay, keeping private data about individual entities from being inspected casually and limits the knowledge of all things from occurrin
by kordless 10y ago
Reality is a security overlay, keeping private data about individual entities from being inspected casually and limits the knowledge of all things from occurring in a single locale. This is the speed of causality (light).
The base function of this reality is to read, process, and write data in a highly immutable manner. This is conservation of energy. Collaborators in this reality exchange data in a variety of ways, but visual inputs through the mind's eye seem to be the predominate method for memory recollection. Based on causal interviews with individuals since learning I have Aphantasia, it would appear these "internal" views seem less immutable than "out here". Some can zoom their mind's eye. Some see in black and white. Some see icons.
One hypothesis to explain the "shared" part of the hallucination would be the existence an immutable shared data structure underlying the universe which uses consensus to agree, long term, about what happened "out here" based on various and sundry inputs from an entity's internal view & resulting action(causality). Internal views may be non-immutable (highly mutable) and may be influenced by metaphysical phenomenon. People see things that others don't see. The Romans thought it was the act of Gods to see and hear things others didn't.
We've always assumed our brains are making these images up, but perhaps they aren't and we missed something important along the way.
- MarkPNeyer 10y ago> One hypothesis to explain the "shared" part of the hallucination would be the existence an immutable shared data structure underlying the universe which uses consensus to agree, long term This is a hypothesis i also stumbled into: reality as a method for coming to consensus on a data structure. Check out this simple description of a game with similar mechanics: https://markpneyer.wordpress.com/2015/02/22/the-photoshop-game-overlapping-subjective-realities-create-a-stable-objective-reality/ https://markpneyer.wordpress.com/2015/02/22/the-photoshop-ga...
- jasonkostempski 10y agoThat reminded me I had a random thought about how the universe is a sorting algorithm working towards heat death a few months ago. Probably not an original thought but its fun to think about.
- kordless 10y agoWhere heat death == infinite light on the metaphysical side.
- Xiol 10y agoWeird. I searched for the definition of Aphantasia and came across this[1] link which describes it in detail. I think I'm the same - I can't visualise things in that way. [1] - https://www.facebook.com/notes/blake-ross/aphantasia-how-it-feels-to-be-blind-in-your-mind/10156834777480504/ https://www.facebook.com/notes/blake-ross/aphantasia-how-it-...
- napworth 10y agoWow. Just finished your link. A great read. I don't know which I find more surprising. The fact that Blake (The creator of Firefox) can't picture anything in his mind, or the fact that he thought everyone was the same, and that "picture a beach" was metaphorical.
- Xiol 10y agoI thought everyone was the same, and "picture a beach" was metaphorical. The fact people can actually do this in their minds has blown my mind - metaphorically. I'm genuinely still reeling from this.
- neom 10y agoWait what, really? I can literally draw anything you ask me to in my mind, I can see things so vividly I can manipulate them with my mind if I want to. Fascinating that you can't, totally... blows..my...mind. :) (edit: then as a note, you might find this interesting: https://medium.com/@jedgar/my-broken-mind-24bb98a1e793 https://medium.com/@jedgar/my-broken-mind-24bb98a1e793)
- dandelion_lover 10y agoSome more reading about the subject: http://lesswrong.com/lw/dr/generalizing_from_one_example/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/dr/generalizing_from_one_example/
- neom 10y ago