Gday I have considered the prospect that we are indeed a “virtual world” in another’s reality, I have considered all that is around me may be placed there simply so the higher intelligence can observe my reaction to situations, but happily I can conclude such thinking is delusional, irrespective of it being correct or not
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Many however fail to stop and consider their possible delusions and happily follow an idea and finally turn it into their reality. I regard all my views finally with high suspicion and that is why I will not let myself entertain any one possibility as having any greater virtue than another. (Even the gravity rain idea and this must surprise you sits in the same box
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The fractal Universe excites me as it must excite anyone who realizes that the current difficulties in reconciling various apparently sound theories in conflict so as the quest for understanding can continue.
Karl you point to the sums as in themselves limiting the Universe to finite which raises again in my mind well if finite do we swim in a sea of nothing. So the conflict remains
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In the days following my brush with death via the indirect hit by lightening I felt my brain had been treated similar to a defragementation operation on a computer. I certainly found a new understanding of the expression...my life flashes before me.., for indeed it did as it seemed that everything was presented to me in an instant... absolute silence yet ever sound I had ever heard somehow together
..Very confusing when one tried to make sense of it later. What was the reality of the event? Merely a flood of impressions caused by some current leaking through my body via the brain that all
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Yet so many folk I have related the experience to want to read all sorts of things into the event to suit their realities and beliefs... from being touched by God to aliens transferring knowledge to me
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I smile and agree with whoever simply as that is what they want to believe what’s the point trying to change peoples views as you can not win.(I have no converts to the gravity rain idea).. they will spend time (my time) seeking to use my experience to build their reality to suit them…not to make me seem special but to make them seem special...and I am not special.
The reality that is the most reasonable is that I was probably being held in a state of fearfulness, as the difference between being alive and dead was minor. The event simply caused me to think about everything and although the result saw me reading faster(because I began reading more I became more efficient that’s all) and thinking about matters that were to that point of less importance prior to the event (I would think more because I was reading more) I don’t attribute to the various explanations others wish to seize upon.
Delusion would then support my defragmentation idea (over their chosen explanations) if I let it whereas reality would have been more easy to attribute to fear of death
. Probably more to the point I realized if I had not been dripping with water I may not have been hit but it seems that the fact I was dripping wet was the very thing that presumably saved me. giving the “current” an easy path to continue upon its way.
Maybe the higher intelligence had simply hit “reset”
or maybe I was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time which is more acceptable to my human reasoning
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AND all such thinking tells me is that...delusion can be built upon a reasonable premise and can form part of a particular humans reality. One should be careful and take the time to question possibilities but be quick to step back to observe that perhaps reason has lead you up the garden path. I feel that reason has lead much popular thinking up the garden path in many areas but enjoy nevertheless considering the discoveries that unfold as a result.
My prime concern with the fractal approach is it will add fuel to the string proposition of the possibility of trillions of universes. which no doubt I reject but only because the prospect is so daunting. Something I noticed suggested, in the absence of further original thought, those involved in “string research” will happily line up to support the new idea.
So a new reality will be born I expect
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But my point is finally I am also very excited about the fact that we do not have to wait very long for it to unfold further and will follow its development with keen interest but unfortunately my math ability will always see me on the outside looking in .. but maybe that is a good thing for me
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Alex