[ExI] "create our own realities"

[Kevin Freels]

So you are saying that in the future, reality can change to a universe 
where it is easy to exceed the speed of light?


Stefano Vaj wrote:
> On Jan 11, 2008 4:23 PM, Mike Dougherty <msd001 at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Jan 11, 2008 9:58 AM, Stefano Vaj <stefano.vaj at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> The problem with "one's own reality" is that some techniques to change
>>> it do not really prevent other, harder  aspects of your own reality
>>> from biting back your bottom, or however the American say goes... :-)
>>>       
>> Thanks for continuing this line of thought.
>>
>> If I become convinced through some personal observation that deli
>> mustard is poisonous, and refuse to consume it (and perhaps try to
>> convince others to also avoid it) - am I 'creating' a new reality or
>> am I simply delusional?
>> btw - I enjoy deli mustard and used it for illustrative purposes only
>>     
>
> So do I, but I think it is a good example. Let us say that you do live
> in reality where deli mustard is poisonous, but as external observers
> we can assume that reality is subject to a likely change if you are
> the kind of person that is going to accept, after perchance ingesting
> some unvoluntarily, that you did not actually die and that you are not
> (yet) in heaven.
>
> In broader terms, phenomena is all about which we can sensibly speak.
> And phenomena are what is part of our world and apparent to our
> "perception" (in the broadest sense of the world). Philosophically,
> there is nothing especially strange in admitting that black holes were
> not part of the world of the Ancient Romans. We can on the other hand
> say that our own perception of reality does not only include them, but
> see them extended, along a coordinate that we arbitrarily call time,
> to the region where we position the Ancient Romans themselves.
>
> Accordingly, "delusions" are those perception of reality which are i)
> highly unstable, ii) subject to be quickly pruned by darwinist
> competition amongst different "realities", in a very literal sense.
>
> E.g., a shaman might be perfectly persuaded that he had won a battle
> fought by his curses against firearms, but since he died in the
> process his "reality" is not really around to be discussed any more...
> :-)
>
> Stefano Vaj
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