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03-19-2005, 06:37 AM #21OPSenior Member
to those who have not met anyone here...
Originally Posted by 4252
Because when you "wake up" from the chatroom, who "you" are is still the same, only the perceptions of your surroundings change. But what if, for instance you wake up and realize everything you've lived, everything you remember has been literally a dream. Not only has everything you lived been an illusion, all your memories dreams, but what you thought was "the real you", was not.
So let's say you are a gob of intelligent high energy plasma clinging to a iron cliff isolated on a distant planet, you being the only intelligent life in the universe. You've woken up from the "human life", where there were people, and jobs, and weed, and computers. But now none of that is relevant. You say "oh yeah, this is my existence. wow, what a crazy dream, I was a human, whatever that is. well, good to be back clinging to the iron cliff." But you would still have no justification to say "this is real," or "this is the real me," because the only self evident truth is your consciousness, not what it's seated in.
I used the chat forum example as a microcosm to represent the greater application, because the methods of "trickery" more salient (it doesn't have to be a dream, or a matrix, or something far fetched enough to fool our senses, just what appears on the screen).Don\'t mess with Texas.