The Brain in a Jar
Reality is Indeed a Strange Dimension.
“There is a piece of paper sticking to the metallic wall in my unit. It has been torn from a real book what is a rare phenomena these days, books I mean. Each time I wake up from, again, another soundless time-block I look at it and read the hand written words, “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set ye free.” Not that I am hanging on the words but I do not want to forget the meaning of the idea that is swirling behind it. I think it is important these days to know the truth when walking in this ungodly 5D geometric system showing the illusion of static 3D motions.
Why do I even bother to walk over to my unit window and look at this grey view? Oh god, how I loathe this holographic illusion we have to life these days. Even the rain droplets that fall on my skin are not real. What…my skin is not even real! It just registers the electrical impulses from a system that ‘tells’ me that it is raining due to the fact it is corresponding with a network what is exchanging the uploaded quantum information. I hate my avatar-body; it is ugly and feels unnatural. But it is too dangerous not to use this odd bio-suit because if I would walk through the streets, dominated by lifeless smart walls and two-ton circuit boards crawling around, in the body I was born in, it would go into decay by means of the high radiation.”
According to some history books, our species was one of the dumbest kind roaming this globe but if we were really in a state of a daily dementia, how is it that we were looking up to the skies from day one, seeking the answers to the questions; Who am I? Is it possible that I am not real, and I do not even know it? This present moment what I am experiencing right now, is this consciousness and is this as close as I get to reality? Reality is by definition a strange dimension.
What is reality? That is indeed a tricky question whereby multiply but plausible answers, and theories, are directing in several directions. But regardless in which direction one is viewing and wrestle with this question, in some enigmatic way; many people end up with a form of “Platonic realism” what states that the visible world of particular things is a shifting exhibition, like shadows cast on a wall by the activities of their corresponding universal ideas or forms.
These days many scientists from all over the world are trying to wrap their minds around this question of what this foggy state of the mind is. But is it really a foggy state we seem to be stuck in? Or may we think of it as a strange kind of an overlapping of different frames of space and time in where a primordial energy is forming its own density and, for us, recognizable objects in a classical reality?
Hum, if our current understanding of physics is correct, then, it is impossible to simulate the whole universe, with its trillions and trillions of things. But we do not actually need to. From a deep view the vast universe could just be a flat projection, and we would have no way of knowing it. There seems to be a possibility that we only need enough universes and high speed rotating light particles hitting the planes with the right angle to fool the inhabitants of our simulation, or simulations, into thinking that they are real. So, who needs billions of galaxies, we only need the space to explore.
Your body might feel like it is filled with bubbly things, but it might be empty, until you open it. The minimum requirement for our simulation is only the consciousness of the ‘virtual human’ and for this to ‘think’ the simulation is real. So, is our ‘reality’ or our ‘reflection’ (anti-matter) being simulated? Consciousness, are we perceiving it or, is it perceiving us? Well, those are two hell of a challenging questions! These are probably some of the deepest questions you have ever asked in your life. Even though the ‘consciousness puzzle’ is a rough one to answer, believe it or not, it is not entirely impossible to answer this ‘simulation’ question although the answer is so radical that it cannot be communicated with (written) words. But let me try to do so anyway.
Imagine a large mirror. As soon as we are standing in front of it, we start making strange and funny faces… we even wave to ourselves. Why do we do so? Is this an attempt for self-recognition due to the fact we cannot see our own image (face) that often as we see that of others? Or is it more an expression by means of a slight fear/ shock after the bubble of a false self image has burst and an actual self-recognition occurs? Some of you may say, “Why bother, it is just a reflection. It is not even real!” But if the reflection of a dens object is an illusion, would it not mean that the original object, you in this case, is an illusion as well? Have you ever seen the light reflecting of a complex form of superior mirage (Fata Morgana)?
Is it possible that in the moment we ‘see’ the other, we, briefly or permanent, become one, and instantly are aware of our consciousness?
The reality of what you think you are without the mirror is, in this line of thought, an illusion as well. Does this mean that, as we are standing in front of a mirror, we try to recognize of what we really are? I mean, do we show this funny behavior, what can be considered as a natural reflex, to make it less complex for our brain to correct what it is registering as it is trying to combine this ‘visible image’ of what it ‘thinks’ of its self to be. The moment in which our superego is correcting our confused ego, putting it back where it belongs…a bit more to the back of this stage we call ‘life’? Hum, reality as we have become so familiar with is slowly starting to be a scary realm.
It seems that we are unable to experience the true nature of any object in our so-called familiar space and time (reality), in an unfiltered manner. Our senses and brains are yet not that evolved and it can only process a fraction of the world around us. So we have to use concepts and tools, to learn about the true nature of reality. Technological progress has not only widened our knowledge about neither our reality nor the universe, it also made us aware of unsettling possibilities in, for instance, quantum entanglement communications.
I know that most of us are just innately curious to know if there is something deeper to ‘reality’ than just what we have been told, what our culture, science or even what religion has explained us. There is something you are missing and you cannot quite put your finger on what it is but you know there has to be something there.
If I would say that reality is both infinite consciousness and infinite imagination, your mind would instantly go out to wrestle the question, “What is consciousness and how could a, or any, reality be infinite imagination?” What I mean by reality being infinite consciousness is that when you were born, or in this line of thought, when you imagined that you were born, you had no idea what you were born into. You had no idea who you were, what you were, what the world was, what life was nor what the point of life was. You were a blank page we might say. And then you quickly started learning ‘stuff’ and with the same rapid speed started misunderstanding what ‘reality’ is and now you have to deal with these misunderstandings which run very very deep in your subconscious mind.
So, what you consider to be ‘reality’ might not be real at all. You really might be… simulated by your own thoughts. But all of this is based on a lot of assumptions that science cannot really test right now what makes many people disagree with this whole thought experiment.
Nevertheless, I would not recommend for you to burn your house down to test if there will be glitches in the matrix. You might be on a small planet speeding through eternal nothingness, or a simulation inside a computer. All that we can do is hoping that, if we actually are simulations in a supercomputer, nobody trips over the power cable.
