lets say we invented a specific computer system that holds millions of story books. now what you do is select a book and choose which character you will be in the book. Then you hook up to the machine.,Now you actually become the character in the story, living the life in the book.You see out of his eyes, feel the emotions, hardships, pleasures, the weather; in other words, you are now him. he will not know any different, he will not know and you will not know you are hooked up to the machine. You as the character will follow the story line completely because the story is pre-written, it is ordained. You can live years while spending only a couple hours hooked up. If the character dies, you simply return to the real world, retaining all the memories. However, until the time limit is up, or the book ends, you do not know that you are the person at the machine. you will simply be living a new life. So would you go for this, why and what would be the first book you choose. I would definitely do it, but me hesitant about what book to use first. maybe start out easy. robison crusoe perhaps.
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It sounds like just a long movie where the boring parts have not been cut out. So I might try it for the novelty, but it doesn't sound like something I would regularly do.
The idea that we are in a simulation has been a discussion for some times. I've seen odds as high as 25 - 50 percent. In fact, I'm linking to a Scientific American article that puts the odds near 50%.
Do We Live in a Simulation? Chances Are about 50–50
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I reckon you could go for a fiction book called The Benefits of Garlic.
You look like a grate big clove with legs and run down the street saying Hay I’m beneficial and I have heeling properties.
Then the village folk yell back. Hay get lost loser you stink.
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. You would have been gone long ago
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See out of his, her or it's eyes.
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I think you will find that the technology is all ready here and that engineers are on the cups of making a brain far more powerful and capable than a human brain. So so far as being able to simulate an other character I think that is a no brainer and in fact you can go down your High street and buy yourself a pair of reality goggles. The rest of it including all our other senntses is also a no brainer so scientists will have the hole experience available in only a few years time.
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Well thats your blinkered uneducated and unresearched observation of virtual reality.
If you do your research on real scientific sites that dont allude to dum things such as any thing natural is grate then you will see that technology has developed at an amazing acceleration to the point in just a few years time we can actually live in a stimulation with out having to philosophize or dream a bout it. Thats the relevance of what I am pointing out so you should put a way all those dum comics and stop visiting those airy fairy garlic sites and actually see what is happening in the reel world.
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And oh gee yes I confess I got it all totally 100 zillion per cent wrong. Yes dummy me I got confused with those big Samsung specs that you wear.
Okay now I've got it. So this is the same thing right but instead of wearing the specs your hooked up to this machine right and they inject you with this purple flouro liquid and your body bulges and your vains almost pop out of your body. Then hay presto you land in this Garden of Eden place which is the land of garlic and honey and your mission is to eat as much as you can to see how well you get. When you are about to pass out and die this chick in a white coat back in the lab pulls the reverse lever and you end up back in the chair safe and well. Then she says Hay have you learned any thing from that? Then you say from what?
Then she rolls her eyes upwards and says Okay then I'll book you in for another appointment.
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Okay then I give up . I thought that you must of been talking about Total Recall with Arnie Schwartzinager. So since I’m so unsmart what movie are you talking about?
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Do you mean like when some one keeps posting the same evidence time and time again that they think is evidence then every body like every body tells that person that the scientific report is really a paid for editorial that uses implications but never actually confirms or says a single thing and uses sites that never says things like may or it has been found instead of will?
Because yeah. These people are very gullible and all ways take things at face value and get sucked in every inch of the way. But you can't tell them that even if a 100 people tell them. So yeah these people shouldn't be debating any subject at all because they have no real idea at all. I throughly agree with you.
Any way. Back to the subject. I would go to the book We Remember it for You Wholesale and I would like to be the character Dennis Quail. I would then travel to Mars in the future when people live there and I'm an assassin and all these agents are out to get me.
That would be really cool. What do you reckon?
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Yeah thats right and thats exactly what Im talking about. Obviously you dont know about or havent red the book Im talking about. A movie was done twice about it and exactly every thing you describe in your OP is exactly what happens. So may be you should not be debating your own topic if you dont and wont under stand what some one else is properly debating about. Maxx stuffs up again I reckon
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Like derr. It has everything to do with your speculation because it’s exactly the same unless you’re trying to say that some how the author went forward in time and copied your post and wrote a book about it.
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Well okay I have red the OP and I'm all airs so tell me then what the eff your trying to say then I will give you the most intelligent and considered argument that you ever herd.
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Okay got you there. So there for I go back to my original idea of playing out the Bible. So I sit at the machine, pick the Bible and the character I choose is Jesus and suddenly I am Jesus living the life he has in the book. After the session stops, and only then am I aware of my real self, and yet I retain all the memories of what happened to me while I was Jesus. While I am Jesus, I have no knowledge that the real me is sitting at the machine.
So am I on the right page now because I think it all adds up.
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You mean like in A Cockwork Orange which is where this inmate guy had match sticks to keep his eyes open so he could watch a hole heap of violent and porno movies until he puked up and in the end he was cured.
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Well no thats not as far as it reaches because if you want me to do a post on some thing as far as mind reaches then it would cover several thousand pages. All I'm doing here is giving you a snippet of what I think about what you said about:
And I reckon that Stanley Kubrick covered exactly what you were talking about extremely well so what your got to do is expand your limited range of intelligent thinking to a completely new level of under standing and think of what other people say in terms of what they are articulating instead of only the strictly confined conscripts of what is going down in your thought processes at a particular given time.
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Okay gotcha.
So what if I choose the main character in the book called A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess.
I would be the main character called Alex and go in to a world full of violence. So then me and my mates go in to this Russian Milk Bar and drink milk shakes laced with drugs then go out on a rampage. But its after I murder some one and end up in the klink when all the meety part of the experience starts to happen. So they inject me with different drugs to make me hate the things that I liked before including Beethoven but in particular all the violence and porn. Which is where the match sticks come in to it and I start puking every where.
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