(2020-06-19, 02:00 PM)Stan Woolley Wrote: [ -> ]This will need a bit of deciphering (thinking about) Stephen!
Good stuff though - Raw data...mmm
Ultimately only one thing can absolutely, certainly, be known to be real: the self as a thinking conscious entity. Courtesy Descartes - "I think therefore I am".
All else, the world, other persons, the apparently objective reality verified from countless scientific observations and experiments, all other things experienced as real even including paranormal phenomena like veridical NDEs and other spiritually transformative visions and enlightenments, and also all else that could even possibly be imagined, in principle could be illusion.
The ultimate source of doubt for the deep thinker. Maybe better not to think so deep.
More to think on:
The Marcus Arvan-proposed P2P (peer to peer) participatory physical reality simulation concept seems to well explain such mysteries as the ultimate nature of quantum mechanics and its well-verified but mysterious undergirding of our physical reality.
All of the physics of our world, including Einstein's relativity equations, E = MC^^2, etc. etc. would merely be what was programmed into the P2P simulation.
According to the P2P virtual reality simulation hypothesis absolutely all of our world, the physical reality we experience and observe, is illusory and is basically information computed in some other (higher) reality. We as participators in the cosmic simulation would not be artifacts of the simulation - we would be the users, true conscious sentient thinking entities inhabiting that higher reality.
A spiritual/metaphysical interpretation of this could be that this P2P simulation reality is merely the mechanism by which Spirit creates the playground of experience and limitation and learning for eternal souls.
Of course, logically, another possibility could be that the higher level P2P simulation world could in turn just be another even higher-level P2P simulation, and so on without end, ad infinitum. The intellect, along with abstract thought, creativity and imagination can get lost in its own ponderings of the possibilities.