Reality isn't real

i occasionally marvel out how the laws of physics never seem to drop frames or lag or stutter or suffer from any other sort of performance problems. like even a surpercomputer needs a moment to change context or something right?

i guess though the guys in the video games don't notice when a game is lagging like a motherfucker though, so yeah nevermind.

  On 8/16/2010 at 7:16 AM, azatoth said:

  On 8/15/2010 at 11:48 PM, wahrk said:

 

PS: How coked up is this guy?

 

Very. Here he looks like a badguy from Miami Vice with a young trophy wife to boot.

LOL

I like Slavoj Žižek quite a lot. He articulates things well and he's interesting as a figure of some sort anyway

at least it should be somewhat comforting for my sister to know that maybe i only simu-raped her last night.

Good book, the last few chapters were on whether we could be a computer, the answer is "probably."

  On 8/16/2010 at 4:55 AM, wake said:

  On 8/16/2010 at 4:49 AM, chenGOD said:

  On 8/16/2010 at 12:42 AM, wake said:

The universe is huge. Even if there was something conscious that had simulated it, they probably wouldn't have even noticed us, because we're tiny and inconsequential.

 

This argument, to me, is just as narcissistic as any religious philosophy I've heard. We're not important, we never have been, and once the Sun eats up the Earth, all the memory of our planet will dissolve as if it had never happened in the first place. Anything important we leave behind, Shakespeare, Beethoven, The Bible, Autechre, sandwiches. All gone.

 

 

Except for the voyager 1, voyager 2, pioneer 10 and pioneer 11 spaceships.

And bacon.

 

edit: They'll probably bump into some space shit and get destroyed anyway.

That still leaves bacon.

and if this is a simulation, why can't I grow a 17" penis from each hand?

read the rules

its specifically states why

dude, that's a fucked up thing to say...

I dont really have anything constructive to add, other than I enjoyed reading this thread.

HURF DURF BLUH DUH

wait did i really say that or a computer

  On 8/16/2010 at 6:11 PM, bundle of sticks said:

read the rules

 

its specifically states why

lol u fail it.

Its just a simulation!!

  On 8/16/2010 at 4:57 AM, happycase said:

The cosmos looks through your eyes and sees the cosmos. Like a big eyeball that grows out of the black space and looks upon itself. That's what we are (and it's not a thing, so i'm not reallyt alking about anything).

Exactly, you aren't separate from the universe, you're made of the same stuff everything else is, just arranged into a structure that allows for this thing we call consciousness. We're little bits of the universe walking around looking at itself and bantering on watmm.

Now..

  On 8/15/2010 at 11:07 PM, triachus said:

Here's Tom with the weather.

  On 8/16/2010 at 7:39 PM, TwiddleBot said:

  On 8/16/2010 at 4:57 AM, happycase said:

The cosmos looks through your eyes and sees the cosmos. Like a big eyeball that grows out of the black space and looks upon itself. That's what we are (and it's not a thing, so i'm not reallyt alking about anything).

 

Exactly, you aren't separate from the universe, you're made of the same stuff everything else is, just arranged into a structure that allows for this thing we call consciousness. We're little bits of the universe walking around looking at itself and bantering on watmm.

 

Now..

 

  On 8/15/2010 at 11:07 PM, triachus said:

Here's Tom with the weather.

Aye.

Now is another concept spiritual people throw around. It doesn't have the referent people think it has (naturally...). The "now" concept is as much a manifestation of the universe as anything else. All words point to the same thing.

if i wore a watch it'd be this one:

Hey chenGOD what does the text in your sig mean?

google translation gives:

~ ~ ~ I would love to baekhoya time. My son

but babelfish gives:

The white tiger Oh! ~~~ thing example will always love. My son

what gives?

what's real and what's not?? *reality disillusion*

i wonder how will it sound when the sun fries all bacon on earth. because i know it will smell delicious.

  On 8/16/2010 at 8:30 PM, triachus said:

Hey chenGOD what does the text in your sig mean?

 

 

google translation gives:

 

~ ~ ~ I would love to baekhoya time. My son

 

 

but babelfish gives:

 

The white tiger Oh! ~~~ thing example will always love. My son

 

 

 

It means:

Hey white tiger ~~~ I will always love you. (You are) My son.

and on a related note to reality:

3-D IMAX porn is now real

i think how things came to be the way they are is a lot more interesting and relevatory than what things are at this moment in time

  On 8/16/2010 at 5:41 AM, luke viia said:

  On 8/16/2010 at 4:57 AM, happycase said:

Also, I feel like most people haven't considered what "evolution" really means. Evolution means you are literally the fabric of the cosmos, "evolving," which you can also call "doing what it does." Your mother doesn't give birth to you, the cosmos does. The cosmos looks through your eyes and sees the cosmos. Like a big eyeball that grows out of the black space and looks upon itself. That's what we are (and it's not a thing, so i'm not reallyt alking about anything). Not "People" or any of that nonsense. Those are just labels.

 

For all practical discussions of the matter, your mother did give birth to you, but yes, as Lawrence Krauss put it, "Forget Jesus, the stars died for us."

 

 

(related Krauss quote: "Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics.")

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWw9tboDtrg

what's even better is that since the universe is a closed system we all share atoms. So some of us might have some of Einstein's atoms, or Gandhi's/Sir Isaac Newton's/Galileo's etc.

Of course there's the flipside to that where some people here clearly have atoms from the biggest failures in history.

atoms are evil

  On 8/16/2010 at 11:57 PM, chenGOD said:

what's even better is that since the universe is a closed system we all share atoms. So some of us might have some of Einstein's atoms, or Gandhi's/Sir Isaac Newton's/Galileo's etc.

Of course there's the flipside to that where some people here clearly have atoms from the biggest failures in history.

ouch, man, now theres an insult that really kicks you in the balls.

  On 8/16/2010 at 10:26 PM, chenGOD said:

  On 8/16/2010 at 8:30 PM, triachus said:

Hey chenGOD what does the text in your sig mean?

 

 

google translation gives:

 

~ ~ ~ I would love to baekhoya time. My son

 

 

but babelfish gives:

 

The white tiger Oh! ~~~ thing example will always love. My son

 

 

 

 

 

It means:

 

Hey white tiger ~~~ I will always love you. (You are) My son.

Pff... They can't even make a computer that can translate.