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I believe that humans never directly experience reality. This is why. * 4
    #28277814 - 04/14/23 05:54 PM (9 months, 9 days ago)

It is my belief that humans do not directly experience reality. Not you. Not me. We know that our body uses our sensory organs to extract information from our environment. We then send this information, via the nervous system, to our brain to be processed. Our brain then uses this information, and creates an 'experience' such as a sound, a sight, a sensation, etc.

The only thing we are actually 'experiencing' is the movie our brain creates....from the data it gathers externally. However, we, the viewer, are basically watching a movie....and we've never really experienced the raw data that our sensory organs are picking up.

Furthermore, even if we DID experience the 'raw data', we would still be experiencing it via the medium of our brain - and therefore again have no direct experience with reality.

To this end, I believe reality itself does not reveal itself to us directly.

What do you guys think?


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Re: I believe that humans never directly experience reality. This is why. [Re: tekramrepus] * 2
    #28277845 - 04/14/23 06:14 PM (9 months, 9 days ago)

For all intents and purposes, you are right. However, some experiences, via high-dose psychedelics or robust yogas, can show us that the DNA-Brain prison can be unlocked, and that objective reality does exist. There are a lot of hippy-dippy terms for this, like "all is one" or "cosmic consciousness," but it is my experience that we can, very fleetingly, experience the conscious nonlocality inherent in the fabric of Nature.


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Re: I believe that humans never directly experience reality. This is why. [Re: DividedQuantum]
    #28277878 - 04/14/23 06:40 PM (9 months, 9 days ago)

We are not just experiencing reality, we are reality. It's not just a direct experience, it's an intimate experience. People generally run away from it. They may say they want it, but much of what they do is to avoid reality. Instead of experiencing it directly people invest themselves in various delusions. It's a very human thing to do but if that's all one does it can begin to feel like being on the inside looking out and not being immersed in what is outside. A prisoner of the mind. This to is a direct experience, just a very limited one. We were not meant to be so isolated, safe, dwelling on meaning, reason, purpose without answers.


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Re: I believe that humans never directly experience reality. This is why. [Re: Rahz]
    #28277922 - 04/14/23 07:13 PM (9 months, 9 days ago)

What else are we experiencing if not reality?


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Re: I believe that humans never directly experience reality. This is why. [Re: tekramrepus]
    #28278014 - 04/14/23 08:29 PM (9 months, 9 days ago)

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tekramrepus said:
It is my belief that humans do not directly experience reality. Not you. Not me. We know that our body uses our sensory organs to extract information from our environment. We then send this information, via the nervous system, to our brain to be processed. Our brain then uses this information, and creates an 'experience' such as a sound, a sight, a sensation, etc.

The only thing we are actually 'experiencing' is the movie our brain creates....from the data it gathers externally. However, we, the viewer, are basically watching a movie....and we've never really experienced the raw data that our sensory organs are picking up.

Furthermore, even if we DID experience the 'raw data', we would still be experiencing it via the medium of our brain - and therefore again have no direct experience with reality.

To this end, I believe reality itself does not reveal itself to us directly.

What do you guys think?



while I think you have a simplified notion, it is largely correct, except for the we.
we are not doing any of it.
we are just the reflexes of it happening.
whatever it is is the we; we are the body and the brain and all the mental contents including the sensory signals and any reflexes upon the mental contents from memory
reality is a social convention that aids collaboration with others in the same predicament, or not.
still it's worth the effort to be able to agree on some things.

consensual reality fits there conveniently.

most of us seem to see it fairly much similar - so you could say that that is the reality of our reality here.


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Re: I believe that humans never directly experience reality. This is why. [Re: redgreenvines]
    #28278173 - 04/14/23 10:52 PM (9 months, 9 days ago)

I think there are avenues of existence that we can't understand via the bodies senses..

But I do think we are experiencing a portion of real reality..


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Re: I believe that humans never directly experience reality. This is why. [Re: BrendanFlock]
    #28278325 - 04/15/23 03:58 AM (9 months, 9 days ago)

whatever we can make sense out of, perhaps.


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Re: I believe that humans never directly experience reality. This is why. [Re: thetruthsohelp]
    #28278395 - 04/15/23 05:29 AM (9 months, 9 days ago)

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What else are we experiencing if not reality?





I said we aren't experiencing reality DIRECTLY. As in, our perception/experience is never direct....


What we actually experience, in my opinion?  Have you ever seen a kid use a flashlight or light source and his hands to project "animals" on a wall?  When you look at the wall, you see cool animal shapes....but you aren't actually seeing the animals, nor the source of the animals (unless you look at his hands of course). You are seeing a projection, a mixture of movement (vibration) and light..... and that creates an image.

So to answer your question, what do humans experience......  I believe we experience the "shadow" of reality..... we experience our brains interpretation of the data it gathers from the world around it.....along with our inner dialogue.


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Re: I believe that humans never directly experience reality. This is why. [Re: BrendanFlock]
    #28278399 - 04/15/23 05:32 AM (9 months, 9 days ago)

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I think there are avenues of existence that we can't understand via the bodies senses..

But I do think we are experiencing a portion of real reality..





A portion of real reality? I can sort of agree with that.

My main topic though is really about how we interface with the external world.



When we are playing a video game..... are we reading code? Are we viewing the source code directly.....or are we playing with moving images and sounds created by the source code?

When we experience "reality" through our 5 sensory organs.....it is scientifically understood that we are not experiencing them "directly".....but rather, our brain is processing this information, and creating a picture of reality for us.


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Re: I believe that humans never directly experience reality. This is why. [Re: DividedQuantum]
    #28278407 - 04/15/23 05:37 AM (9 months, 9 days ago)

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For all intents and purposes, you are right. However, some experiences, via high-dose psychedelics or robust yogas, can show us that the DNA-Brain prison can be unlocked, and that objective reality does exist. There are a lot of hippy-dippy terms for this, like "all is one" or "cosmic consciousness," but it is my experience that we can, very fleetingly, experience the conscious nonlocality inherent in the fabric of Nature.




I can absolutely agree with this.

Our brain, is a tool - and unfortunately we were never given the instruction manual for planet earth, nor for our bodies/flesh vehicles.

I do believe it is possible, with plant medicine, or spiritual exercises, to interface with reality differently.  I still am not entirely convinced we can ever DIRECTLY experience reality, however.




Here's another way of putting it:

No living physical beings are able to directly experience reality....... because the only way they interface with reality is via sensory organs...... and all sensory organs relay information to brains....and the brains create/process that information.

Its like watching youtube videos.....you are watching videos that are edited, cleaned up, etc - you aren't see the 'raw video'. Our brains do that.



We are also limited by our sensory organs.....humans have 5 sensory organs....and therefore, we understand and relate to the external world through these 5 organs..... we can't really perceive reality outside of these 5 sensory organs.

There are probably an infinite array of sensory organs , but we will never see reality out of them because we don't have them.





Unfortunately, our brains also process out "useless information".    When our brains get certain data from our sensory organs that it feels is useless, it will sometimes filter out this information, in other words....it deletes this information before we get to see/experience it.  So there are sounds, sights, sensations, that our brain will literally filter out before we can experience them.


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Re: I believe that humans never directly experience reality. This is why. [Re: thetruthsohelp]
    #28278415 - 04/15/23 05:41 AM (9 months, 9 days ago)

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What else are we experiencing if not reality?






When I say reality - I mean it in simplistic terms. The external world. Everything that is outside of us (obviously we are a part of reality too, but in THIS context, I'm referring to external reality).

My theory is that any being that uses sensory organs to interface with reality(the external world), never directly experiences reality(the external world), because thats not how our bodies/minds work. Science shows us that our external organs gather information, send them up our nervous systems to our brain....and our brain compiles that information into a graphical user interface.

For instance, its like programming in visual basic.    When you compile code, and you create a program.....is a person actually viewing the code in its raw form? No......its viewing a compiled GUI. Thats what I mean.

Sure, the "program" is still "real". its just not the raw form of the source code, I guess is what I'm trying to say.


What humans experience is still reality, of course - its just not a direct, unadultered version of it. Its the subjective reality our brains create based on the data it receives.


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Re: I believe that humans never directly experience reality. This is why. [Re: tekramrepus] * 1
    #28278446 - 04/15/23 06:14 AM (9 months, 9 days ago)

All taking place on the stage of 'I', reality looking for itself?


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Re: I believe that humans never directly experience reality. This is why. [Re: syncro]
    #28279483 - 04/15/23 06:48 PM (9 months, 8 days ago)

So what we experience through the body is a filtered version of reality then?


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Re: I believe that humans never directly experience reality. This is why. [Re: tekramrepus]
    #28279540 - 04/15/23 07:35 PM (9 months, 8 days ago)

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My theory is that any being that uses sensory organs to interface with reality(the external world), never directly experiences reality(the external world), because thats not how our bodies/minds work. Science shows us that our external organs gather information, send them up our nervous systems to our brain....and our brain compiles that information into a graphical user interface.
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this is a bit distorted.
think about it, for whom would it be providing an interface.

your acquired experience (memory) is what gives meaning to what you sense and how you reflexively respond to context and current and recent mental contents.

there is nobody else using you or your mind (brain) as a graphical interface to the world.

in fact everything you are thinking and doing is reflexively based upon who you have been and what you have been up to until this moment - that is both the essential nature of the annatta concept in Buddhism (intuited by insight meditation recorded over centuries) and it is how we are put together if you analyze how things are connected in the brain neurologically.

Using computer terms to analyze mind will just mess things up worse. the brain is not like a computer.


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Re: I believe that humans never directly experience reality. This is why. [Re: tekramrepus]
    #28279581 - 04/15/23 08:11 PM (9 months, 8 days ago)

I would've thought the sight is the information, not experiencing the sensory data we pick up sounds empty to me. Kind of glossing over the complexity of experience.


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Re: I believe that humans never directly experience reality. This is why. [Re: tekramrepus]
    #28279854 - 04/16/23 12:22 AM (9 months, 8 days ago)

I have been on a trip researching qualia recently, I am curious if life is just made up of numerous qualia.  Your words remind me of what I have been thinking.

I thought the other day that if life is made up of qualia then death would have to be made up of numerous qualia too, so then dying is just those experiences which make up the act of dying, the qualia of dying, and there is no death because we just go though those experiences then wake up someplace else, the waking up someplace else is just the quale/qualia associated with being reincarnated, born again, etc, and might explain why certain individuals feel like they have been here before, because they have experienced certain qualia with another life at another time which are similar.

Qualia associated with dying can be read about in NDE (near death experience) studies, atheists, theists, agnostics, etc, all experience many of the same or similar qualia while dying which is fascinating. 

Maybe all is really one!

This is probably a strange idea to some, but I find studying consciousness to be illuminating!


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Re: I believe that humans never directly experience reality. This is why. [Re: Lucis] * 1
    #28279882 - 04/16/23 01:13 AM (9 months, 8 days ago)

Anything that advocates there is life after death is as scam in my view.

I've been in a coma before and there's nothing to make of it.


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Re: I believe that humans never directly experience reality. This is why. [Re: BrendanFlock]
    #28280299 - 04/16/23 09:50 AM (9 months, 8 days ago)

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So what we experience through the body is a filtered version of reality then?





YES! Exactly this!

The reality that 'you' or 'I' experience.....is basically a graphical user interface that our brain creates.....in order for us to survive, reproduce, and interact with our environment.

This is why I believe younger children are more 'psychic' , as some people claim. Its because the 'filter' our brain creates isn't tuned in yet....and so less stuff is being filtered. Therefore, children are more likely to intuitively experience non physical entities, or things WE consider paranormal. Paranormal is really just "that which isn't the norm" - ie, things our brains usually filter out.


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Re: I believe that humans never directly experience reality. This is why. [Re: redgreenvines]
    #28280314 - 04/16/23 09:57 AM (9 months, 8 days ago)

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My theory is that any being that uses sensory organs to interface with reality(the external world), never directly experiences reality(the external world), because thats not how our bodies/minds work. Science shows us that our external organs gather information, send them up our nervous systems to our brain....and our brain compiles that information into a graphical user interface.
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this is a bit distorted.
think about it, for whom would it be providing an interface.

your acquired experience (memory) is what gives meaning to what you sense and how you reflexively respond to context and current and recent mental contents.

there is nobody else using you or your mind (brain) as a graphical interface to the world.

in fact everything you are thinking and doing is reflexively based upon who you have been and what you have been up to until this moment - that is both the essential nature of the annatta concept in Buddhism (intuited by insight meditation recorded over centuries) and it is how we are put together if you analyze how things are connected in the brain neurologically.

Using computer terms to analyze mind will just mess things up worse. the brain is not like a computer.






IMO, the brain is actually very much like a computer.
In fact, this is why certain things like mandalas, symbols, chants, affirmations, etc work so well. Its a form of programming.

But staying back on topic - I'm not sure anything you said really explains why my theory doesnt work.

The brain provides the interface for YOU - for consciousness.  As a human, IMO, we are a spirit > mind > body complex.  You have the spirit (consciousness), the mind/emotions (brain), and the physical body. They all work together as one unit.

Even if you don't believe in a spirit....then just replace that with consciousness.


My point is is really quite simple though, and I think you are sort of maybe over looking the simplicity of it.

The point is, any living being is limited to experiencing reality based on the limitations of the input systems. As a living mammal on earth, we have sensory organs (our input systems), and that's how we gather information.  When we gather information, our brain processes that information, and then AFTER that, we see the 'feed'.

We scientifically know this a fact.  That's why , for instance, a person can experience extreme HOT, or extreme COLD - without any temperature fluctuations. Its why a person can experience a phantom limb. Its why people can have visual or auditory hallucinations. Its because we aren't directly experiencing reality..... we are experiencing our brain, processing information, and creating a 'feed'.


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Re: I believe that humans never directly experience reality. This is why. [Re: sudly]
    #28280321 - 04/16/23 10:03 AM (9 months, 8 days ago)

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Anything that advocates there is life after death is as scam in my view.

I've been in a coma before and there's nothing to make of it.






How do you know there was nothing to make it?
I've been sleeping before, and "didn't dream". Of course, we scientifically know that we dream every night....but I didn't REMEMBER my dreams, and so I thought "I didn't dream".

How many times do you here someone say they don't dream? I don't think they are lying....they just simply don't remember their dreams.

Even if they themselves didn't actually dream - let's say somehow they weren't actually dreaming.....does that mean dreams don't exist? 

Many people have died, and come back to life, and have experienced what it was like to leave the body and enter into various realms.
I personally have left the body many times , in order to explore other places.

I also had someone VERY close to me enter into my dream right after he died.... and let me know he was leaving, and I went into a tunnel like thing with him, and had to let go. I woke up to my phone ringing, which was someone in real life letting me know this person had passed. It was a personal experience that proved to me that life exists after death.


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Re: I believe that humans never directly experience reality. This is why. [Re: tekramrepus]
    #28280347 - 04/16/23 10:23 AM (9 months, 8 days ago)

so you think that the brain and body are like a horse for a rider that is some other kind of thing like a soul.

many people might agree with that in spite of there being no evidence.

granted some mathematical transformations do occur in the 6 layers of the cerebral cortex, shunting signals around to support better perception of scaled and rotated objects, and suppressing image areas where no changes are happening, to better enable movement detection as examples of what kind of sensory post processing is happening.

but the bulk of the activity is memory formation and perceptive reflexes, and that is what is going on as you read and respond to these posts, as you move around in your world etc. Your experience to date is being accessed and taking over reflexively, not your soul.

there really is no such soul, however, your conditioned values prevail, and can help steer you towards moral action, and appreciation of beauty and kindness.

the brain is an organ that developed to help navigate to food sex and safety, and away from danger. it works on the basis of familiarity reflexes.


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Re: I believe that humans never directly experience reality. This is why. [Re: tekramrepus]
    #28280771 - 04/16/23 04:04 PM (9 months, 7 days ago)

I've had nights where I don't dream, or had them and don't remember.

But my own experience of being in a coma was not sleeping, it wasn't anything, it was a total absence of experience and a flat line of being.

There were no dreams, thoughts, or rumbles of anything to reminisce on, only the before and after waking up which are rather clear and exceptionally vivid to me.

I don't think you'll ever be able to effectively explain what you mean by having an outer body experience or entering another realm and having other people enter your dreams without taking full personal responsibility for the experience.

For my own experience of being in a coma I take full responsibility and can assuredly say there was nothing to it.


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Re: I believe that humans never directly experience reality. This is why. [Re: sudly] * 2
    #28280959 - 04/16/23 06:14 PM (9 months, 7 days ago)

So according to some teachings.. predominantly A Course in Miracles there is the idea that perceptions can be false and so can certain perceptions be true..

Perceptions are of course filters..

But the further teaching is that you can bring perceptions to truth and turn them into knowledge..

You see knowledge is unlimited and one can learn the base levels of existence!

But people don't start with knowledge they have to earn it.

So the first job is to have correct filters(perceptions) and then go closer and closer unto the ground state..(Brahman).. which is where God resides..

I certainly think it doesn't do humans justice to say we cannot understand absolute knowledge..

But the idea is that you have to work for it..

Yoga, meditation etc. Insight, thinking.. reading, learning etc.


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    #28281124 - 04/16/23 08:03 PM (9 months, 7 days ago)

the words "absolute knowledge" smells bad to me.


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    #28281342 - 04/16/23 10:14 PM (9 months, 7 days ago)

Smells like Tao to me..

Something blue and black.. like an ocean...


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    #28281543 - 04/17/23 04:45 AM (9 months, 7 days ago)

tao with absolutes? wtf?


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    #28281554 - 04/17/23 05:02 AM (9 months, 7 days ago)

If you know, you know.



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Re: I believe that humans never directly experience reality. This is why. [Re: redgreenvines]
    #28281564 - 04/17/23 05:19 AM (9 months, 7 days ago)

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tao with absolutes? wtf?




Acceptance?


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    #28281565 - 04/17/23 05:20 AM (9 months, 7 days ago)

FOR THE GREATER GOOD!


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    #28281588 - 04/17/23 05:57 AM (9 months, 7 days ago)

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tao with absolutes? wtf?




Acceptance?



a poor substitute for awareness

I mean "presence"
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Re: I believe that humans never directly experience reality. This is why. [Re: redgreenvines]
    #28282455 - 04/17/23 05:14 PM (9 months, 6 days ago)

Being is absolute.. the "you" in being..

Contents may change..

One can know both self and contents..

Why would there be lack?


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    #28282673 - 04/17/23 08:14 PM (9 months, 6 days ago)

are you identifying with the unchanging stuff again?


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    #28282697 - 04/17/23 08:22 PM (9 months, 6 days ago)

I think so, yes..

The fact that you are you never changes.

You don't have to identify except vs obsession with the contents of your mind..

The idea that you are an object too!

If one person has more knowledge than another, then when does knowledge become limited?

Could it be possible for one to have 100% knowledge? What is the barrier..?

Why can't this be true?


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    #28282722 - 04/17/23 08:43 PM (9 months, 6 days ago)

It depends on their appreciation.


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Re: I believe that humans never directly experience reality. This is why. [Re: syncro]
    #28282732 - 04/17/23 08:50 PM (9 months, 6 days ago)

Could be a case of the placebo effect or power of belief..

If rgvs believes you can't attain perfect knowledge than he won't ever experience that..

I on the other hand can have a glimpse because I think it's possible!


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Re: I believe that humans never directly experience reality. This is why. [Re: BrendanFlock]
    #28282858 - 04/17/23 10:11 PM (9 months, 6 days ago)

if you have a point of view of the infinite, and your knowledge is from that point of view, and if there is also an infinite set of other points of view and of other versions knowledge, then none of them at all can be 100% complete due to the existence and difference of so many others.

we are limited to our points of view and so is our knowledge


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Re: I believe that humans never directly experience reality. This is why. [Re: redgreenvines]
    #28282917 - 04/17/23 11:18 PM (9 months, 6 days ago)

I think I see what your saying..

You would have to literally BE everything to have absolute knowledge..

Unless there is honesty in the universe with regards to slack that would allow a single unit within it to be complete..

In that case it would only take the correct alignment of said individual.

Like taking a test or exam..  100% is possible but extremely difficult to attain..

I keep my hope none the less. :stoned:


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Re: I believe that humans never directly experience reality. This is why. [Re: BrendanFlock]
    #28282920 - 04/17/23 11:21 PM (9 months, 6 days ago)

Because fractals though.


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Re: I believe that humans never directly experience reality. This is why. [Re: syncro]
    #28283234 - 04/18/23 06:32 AM (9 months, 6 days ago)

fractals are groovy packages that unfold into larger groovy packages.



only a small subset of knowledge pertains to fractals


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Re: I believe that humans never directly experience reality. This is why. [Re: redgreenvines]
    #28283291 - 04/18/23 07:22 AM (9 months, 6 days ago)

I can't get my head around the flow effects, as we know the sets are static?, and seeming to back out while we know we are zooming in. I'm asking the data god but not to much satisfaction.


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Re: I believe that humans never directly experience reality. This is why. [Re: syncro]
    #28283293 - 04/18/23 07:25 AM (9 months, 6 days ago)

AI doesn't seem to get the difference between the flow effects and zooming in, or maybe there isn't a difference which is maddening.


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Re: I believe that humans never directly experience reality. This is why. [Re: syncro]
    #28283310 - 04/18/23 07:35 AM (9 months, 6 days ago)

I guess this is ok. The mappings are dynamic.

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You are correct that the Mandelbrot set itself is a static mathematical object that does not change or move. However, the visual flow effect in "The Hardest Trip" is created by the movement of the viewing window and the changes in the visual representation of the Mandelbrot set as the zoom progresses.

As the viewing window moves deeper into the set, the intricate and infinitely complex structures of the set are revealed, and the viewer experiences a sense of progression and movement through these structures. This illusion of flow is further enhanced by the use of various zoom techniques, such as slow zooms, fast zooms, and smooth transitions, which create a sense of rhythm and momentum in the video.

So while the Mandelbrot set itself is static, the visual flow effect in "The Hardest Trip" is created by the movement of the viewing window and the changes in the visual representation of the set as the zoom progresses, which gives the illusion of motion and flow.




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    #28283323 - 04/18/23 07:47 AM (9 months, 6 days ago)

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syncro said:
I can't get my head around the flow effects, as we know the sets are static?, and seeming to back out while we know we are zooming in. I'm asking the data god but not to much satisfaction.



initially see how one fractal point of growth functions, and when you understand one point growing to full formal maturity where points of it's form become in turn the points of growth for the next generation of the same form, they you can visualize the totality of all points growing and spawning new fractal units which synchronously grow and spawn as a continuum.

the zooming accommodates the plurality of the effect and reveals macro patterning emerging from the micro pattern, and the speed of the zoom suggests a kind of integration that is not on a consistent timeline or spatial order, but can go on infinitely.

There is no meaning to it, and no need to form an associative understanding of it beyond the elemental growth pattern.

study this type of thing https://www.newscientist.com/article/2283690-weird-fractal-romanesco-cauliflowers-start-life-as-failed-flowers/


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Re: I believe that humans never directly experience reality. This is why. [Re: redgreenvines]
    #28283374 - 04/18/23 08:34 AM (9 months, 6 days ago)

This by contrast is consistent mapping colors to coordinates. Nothing changes but the zoom. I'm wondering also if in the Hard Case one, are they zooming variably by location.



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Re: I believe that humans never directly experience reality. This is why. [Re: syncro]
    #28283416 - 04/18/23 08:53 AM (9 months, 6 days ago)

when the only change is zoom, you miss the magic of node formation.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313358710_Carbon_Material_with_Fibonacci_Parastichy_Structure






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    #28283498 - 04/18/23 09:48 AM (9 months, 6 days ago)

:thumbup: Assuming the set in the digital generations is static, though the functions may differ in the same, we don't see node generation as the set is 'there', unless they run a growth thing. Here is a growth one.



The set being already there they simulate growth with colors. Does that mean the  broccoli is already there? :vaped:


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