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[–] Impractical_Island@lemmy.world -3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Technically, neither side can prove our experiential realities are procedurally generated because for all we know CERN is the equivalent of Mario and Luigi smashing Bob-ombs together. Meditation leads to some insights though, such as how important intention is in the entanglement process of the mind. Whether this entanglement process is Karma and results in the procedural generation of each of our realities is up for debate, and personally I don't want to debate someone who won't do their own experiments to know what I'm talking about.

[–] Paulemeister@feddit.org 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Are you talking about quantum entanglement? What do you mean by intention influencing that?

[–] Impractical_Island@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Quantum entanglement is karmic entanglement. Read what the Buddha said and tell me that doesn't apply to quantum entanglement. See my other comment I just made.

[–] Impractical_Island@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Intention is the only thing you control, and is what entangles you with the symbols sent to you via the Ālaya-vijñāna. I'm going to copy something I wrote recently:

The simple argument is simulation theory, but I try to put effort into what I do, so I'm going to walk you through a thought experiment.

Everything you experience is self-contained within your neurons, right? Well, you must be reading or consuming these words from some device, right? But you're not directly experiencing that device, literally, yea? What you experience is a representation of that thing in your neurons, so you never ever experience the external world, and thus everything you experience can be said to be you. So, that device is you, and there is a refracted reflection of me inside of you right now.

This is, y'know, the kid bending the spoon in the Matrix; there is no spoon, the spoon is an extension of the observers' consciousness. And, if you're familiar with the underlying concept of Plato's allegory of the cave and the idea of being a mind in a vat, there's no evidence that the external world is in any way the way we perceive it to be.

And I believe, from a lifetime of observation and non-normative experiences that we are not featherless bipeds on an Earth, but rather pockets of consciousness called monads in a monadic nodal communication system, where the "Server" connecting and reconciling the intentions of each of us monads experiencing our own parallel universe reality is what Jesus called his Father and is what the Buddhists call the Ālaya-vijñāna, or storehouse consciousness.

[–] Paulemeister@feddit.org 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Your character mumbo jumbo aside, I agree simulation theory could be true but the same as the proposed Äther carrying the electromagnetic field, it is not possible to be proven wrong so it is ultimately useless.

I don't agree that our consciousness can choose what to do. I think it's just an illusion. In that sense your proposal that we steer our experiences by ourself through choosing with which systems to interact, in my opinion, is false. Even if you assume the brain in a vat setup, assuming quantum physics holds in the "real" universe, we just end up with one huge system government by a very complicated wave function

[–] Impractical_Island@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

a very complicated wave function

Most people call that God. The Buddhists and occultists have gone further to describe inner mechanisms through inner observation and interacting with "it," as it has an intelligence if you let it. The mechanism of belief plays a role in determining how it can communicate. For instance, if you know there is nothing random in the universe, God can talk through dice rolls, which is where the etymology of the word "sorcerer" comes from; a caster of lots, and "casting lots" is in the bible 47 times. Synchronicity is what Carl Jung called the overarching phenomena, which I recommend as a stepping off point to begin exploring these features of the mind/existence.

But, back to a more traditional view, some Buddhist sutras go into absurd depth of describing such things, with my life partner currently getting into studying hyperbolic geometry and topology for him to better understand what this or that monk was talking about. There's one sutra that describes the Ālaya-vijñāna in ten thousand pages. I certainly can't do that justice in a comment on the internet, which is why I choose to default to trying to make myself interesting so maybe someone will look into my mountains of work over the years.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You could have used a lot less words to say “I understand absolutely nothing about physics, especially the meaning of the word ‘entanglement.’”

[–] Impractical_Island@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

I understand the mind and consciousness.

Simply, if String A is entangled with String B but not String C, then AB is true and AC is false. Further, these entanglements can möbiate, or defile themselves as the Buddhists say, meaning they can store a half-twist in each entanglement, and this is what creates dualistic dichotomy and thus is the foundation of all illusions of having a self.

Are you a "self?" Are you still stuck on that?

Additionally, the logic structures that form can create nested categories, so a square is a rectangle but a rectangle isn't a square, yet both are quadrilaterals and polygons. Lastly, each section of the matrix can return null, which can be implicit or explicit. The sum of all these mechanisms can represent all forms of the cognition you experience.

You are not a "self." You are a topological matrix, like light, which is neither a particle or wave, but a sum of entanglements defined by a transcendental particle (Alpha) that can be in multiple places at the same time and communicate instantaneously with each part of itself. You are God, retard. You just forgot in the illusion of being a self.

[–] updn@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

“You are God, retard” 🤣🤣

[–] Impractical_Island@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yea, I'm full of myself because I bully myself to do what I put my mind to

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

A word salad is a "confused or unintelligible mixture of seemingly random words and phrases", often used in psychiatry to describe a symptom of a neurological or mental disorder.

Nothing you’ve said makes sense, and the additional pictures you’ve provided are concerning. Are you seeing a psychiatrist?

Like, as someone who has studied and taught physics, none of what you said is intelligible.

[–] Impractical_Island@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sure, just default to assuming the syntactically and semantically correct words you didn't understand are gibberish. Fucking boys I have to deal with...

Do you need me to explain. I have, somewhere in these million words I wrote in character for my state-sponsored job.

My job: Crackhead, because I wasn't good en0ugh yo bee a pothead, qhich is a FESTIVAL COP. Y'know, I'm that crazy person on public transit or whateverz mouthing off, doing drugs, trying to get into fights, and doing two things, objectively; networking, and counterintelligence.

Networking; hi, my name's Victoria Phoenix. I'm a juggler and a skilled righter abd comedian.

Counterintelligence: I poopied my pants, Epstein was a cop and is thus alive because pf tbat, I ear dog shit for lunch cuz it yummy

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QoeKMD5dwnWBB6gHOFgY4uKJOXKg8CPGDu-dE5UsisQ/edit?usp=drivesdk

I don't have to prove myswlf 4 I hav all redy

[–] Impractical_Island@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And yes

Typos: deliberate

Playing your ignorance of philosophy: deliberate

[–] Impractical_Island@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Physics. Cool

Metaphysics. Cooler.

Pataphysics. Coolest.

[–] Impractical_Island@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

The reason we have the occult in the occident is because we run a police state in western civilization, and the Bible is the crust of the truth to control those people who cannot think for themselves (theists+atheists; idiots, both)

[–] Impractical_Island@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Physics is what is allowed for the machines to study.

[–] Impractical_Island@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

My twelfth grade English teacher told me the machines are broken and don't know they're broken.

[–] Impractical_Island@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The machines think a bug is a lesser being than them and will kill it, for no reason.

[–] Impractical_Island@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Intention is literally all you control. Meditate to observe this, which is science last I checked.

[–] Impractical_Island@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Read what the Buddha said about entanglement. It will click ;)