Science, i like your question!
Thanks for asking it!
I've actually answered a similar one by
thereisnoearth.
https://forum.tfes.org/index.php?topic=7141.msg128039#msg128039Some of my arguments will be considered unscientific, but that doesn't mean you should drop them out!
The Matrix isn't just a simple movie, but it's also not a documentary, like the movie actor
Rowdy Roddy Piper said about the movie "They Live".
It's both a mockumentary, because it mocks humans in some ways, and a documentary.
Science,
DuniyaGolHai,
devils advocate,
3DGeek,
Theearthisasphere,
mtnman,
have you ever felt deep down, that you're important, and your thoughts, emotions, feelings, actions are important too? Do you feel that, even when you clearly know you're not a narcissist?People who say, that nobody cares about your feelings or your life, or that your emotions don't matter, are not right and are not wrong - neither
!
I remembe in my early childhood, i felt a strong feeling that i'm important and my life,
my individualty(
in-divide duality...) is very important. There are people, who actually feel the same way. But most of us forget about this feeling. I forgot about it too(i both regret it and don't regert it).
I thought it was because of basic parent-child psychology. No. It wasn't just because of that! It's something that touches the very fabric of our reality. It's so a lot much deeper than i could ever think or imagine in my whole lifetime(but i had few correct guesses close to what i know right now) or the most intelligent scientists in the world, working years, decades in hard work together, could theorize: i am ...
I personally think and believe, that our reality is one of many illusions of my, or yours absolute self ("
abs-me").
(
Yivo character from
Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs)
And i am as a human being and as an induvidual a small and, actually very significant, part of these illusions(so as you are). Any person's development is pretty much about becoming more intelligent, more smarter and more aware of how the world or something in the world works - merging, connecting, transcending to my, your, our' absolute consciousness.
It could be the meaning of life!
I think, it's a natural need for consciousness of any living being, like food for a starving animal (food today and right now...)
And it will be natural even for the possible Artificial Consciousness of robots in future (if we base their consciousness on ours) - to return to its absolute creator(absolute self): to know the creator, to speak to the creator, to share what you feel and think about the creator with the creator.
The same with the truth seeking or any practices of spiritual awakening: the whole point of doing - returning to your absolute self, merging with Absolute. 3DGeek,
So what or who is this omniscient, omnipotent God?
You might not believe in that: it's (absolute) you(mind)! ("i am universe")
("the universe is your baby, child")
("you are both the source and resource of this reality")
("You are both the Creator and the creation")
("i am EVERYTHING!")
Any written bible intentionally only confuses people by merging together actions, thoughts, feelings, emotions of God(absolute self) with gods/goddesses/deities(for example, Shiva in hinduism), kings, world leaders and individuals(in divide all?...) WITHOUT CLEARLY TELLING IT. So this is where the paradoxes come from! And i also think, this is one of the biggest reasons why atheists even exist.
"If the god is all-powerful, why he it allowed the sacrifice of his own son(or of his direct manifestation)?"
"If the god loves us, why it won't stop our suffering, whenever we prey to it?"
"Why god created satan?" (Creating something so evil as satan, by human standards, is the stupidest thing to do ever . But maybe god was bored, or wanted to run a simulation on us to see the results...)
- All because there is no detailed distinction between parts(illusions) of absolute awareness!!!Imagine a puppetmaster that plays with its puppets. But instead of only two puppets on both hands, there are another puppets on the hands of the first 2 puppets. And the second pair of puppets also have puppets on their hands, and so on-on-on..........
And so that puppetmaster has puppets of humans, animals, insects, plants, and even objects. And that puppetmaster can easily and instantly play and pretend to be one, without even switching between them. That puppetmaster can make them talk to each other, hug each other, play with each other, kiss each other, fight each other.
And every puppet, doll is a different being with its own dreams, desires, passion, wishes. They are all individual. But, in fact, all it is, is just a puppetmaster, who belived it's a puppet. A puppetmaster who played with itself.I think, everything is one single "being", and
i am that being, and you are(so, in turn: you are me, i am you)!
And even any malevolent, "evil" reptilian shapeshifter(if they actually exist), any insectoid alien and any animal-like humanoid(the same as previous), any animal, any insect, any object, any physical system, any positive and negative astral being, this whole reality altogether, all possible physical and astral worlds is just that one single thing. Every experience is just experience of one single being.
Our separation and deep, "genetic" faith of being separated is one of the building blocks of this(or our) illusion. If you
practice and study psychokinetic, telekinetic abilities, you might get to a feeling, that everything is like a one big, connected, singular grid of
chi energy.
And don't forget about empath people who can feel each other's emotions in 1000s of miles distances: a person in Australia could simply feel emotions of other person in US, even if they don't know each other and never met.
"The matrix is everywhere. It is all around us.
Even now, in this very room. You can see it, when you look out your window; or when you turn on your television.
You can FEEL IT, when you go to work; when you go to church; when you pay your taxes.
It is the world, that has been pulled over your eyes by yourself?... to blind you from the truth. (...)"
I think the character
Morpheus from
Matrix (1999) movie could be referring BOTH:
Whenever someone
is being egoistic, i see it in a whole new perspective.
You know and feel that being
egoistic is wrong, but caring about other people too much feels wrong as well: when you "overcare" about others, you feel like you're doing something wrong.
So
you have to always keep it balanced for some reason....
But this is a crazy paradox(this is an example of absolute self contradicting with itself...just to stay in the big illusion it made)... You can say that self-development is a way about absolute-
egoism(maybe i'm wrong about the terms here); and caring about other people is absolute-
egoism too, since we are all distorted reflections of the same being - we are all particles of Absolute.
But why does being self-centric,
egoistic and caring only about yourself feels bad(caring about only your fake human self - caring about your own illusion), but caring about others feels good(the same thing - caring about your own illusion, the illusion of your separation)? Again, you have to keep balance inbetween of two. But what's even the point in doing it?
We are all one thing, that continually (in loops within loops)
hates itself (divide, : sign),
fights with itself, doesn't care about its own parts, makes itself suffer, abuses itself, exploits itself, bullies itself - separates itself
and connects with itself (friendship, working together as a team, true and false love), cares about its own parts,
loves itself (add, + sign),
inside of multiple layers on layers of extremely sophisticated, self-created illusions.
And now, when i look at the signature of my profile, i think i'm, yet again, contradicting with myself (on multiple levels of 'self'):
Why am i even fighting against these reptilian shapeshifters who hide among humans??
A part of me hates reptilians/draconians, because they are responsible for some of the most terrible, horrible, disgusting, and voilent things in the world. And i just can't simply ignore this, while being a human (illusion of my Absolute self). Most humans can't !
But if reptilians/draconians are just as part of my Absolute self as i am, then why the hell i'm, literally, hating myself?!...Just to keep my Absolute self in this giant illusion i built??
...Just to beLIEve that i'm a human and i'm nuturally a "lightbringer" - those are reptilian aliens, and they are evil (relatively to human' common sense of course), and we're separate; i have enemies, so this makes me less lonely, less whole (whole - hole...) as Absolute awareness....(
Gremlins (1984) movie has an allusion to shapeshifting reptilians in real life:
monkey-like, furry creatures literally morphing into a lizard-looking gremlins)
...Just watch any movie, play any videogame, read any book, or look for examples in the real life, there is always
one basic, never-stopping, reoccurring cliche
scenario[/url]:
"
good vs
evil", "
criminals vs
police", "
bad guys vs
good guys", "
good actions vs
evil actions", "
good forces vs
evil forces", "
truth vs
lies", "
chaos vs
order", "
us vs
them", "
negative vs
positive", "
actions of reptilian, insectoid humanoids(beast humanoids)" vs
actions of humans"(i had to say it in here - it's just very obvious, if you study about reptilian aliens), "
benevolent vs
malevolent", "
right vs
wrong", "
left vs
right", "
ugly vs
beautiful", etc....etc...
It's
an eternal set (of sets) of relativity - of one thing to another.
The reasons for doing this
endless division and connection of self cycle - something i still don't understand, as a human.
Maybe because i wanted to forget about it intentionally on a highest level of consciousness...
...Maybe because i'm lonely as an absolute...
...Maybe because i know everything about my own self-made illusions, except of what i truly am - so actually i know almost nothing, because i don't even know what i am (or what is my Absolute self purpose, when i'm not in these self-illusions)...
...Or maybe because i am
an empty void, and i need to fill myself with something...
...I am all powerful and all knowing for my own self-limited versions within this
hardcore multi-layered illusion, but am i like that when i'm outside of it?...
I had a dream once, after which i asked myself: could Absolute self be the biggest illusion of all?!?....
...I know for sure that i'm an illusion as human being, I AM NOT REAL! I'm
literally a
tulpa,
egregore of Absolute awareness! And my human life, experience, existence is an illusion as well.
But why as human consciousness i can accept that i'm not real, but as Absolute self i can't?....
...Am i real as Absolute? Am i some sort of highly-complex
Artificial Consciousness, program??!
(existentialism )I think the state of Nirvana, Enlightenment, pure love, spiritual bliss is my Absolute self lying to my Absolute self.
This reality and how beings interact with eacn other in here, and the fact that this reality even exists, for me, is the evidence of that Absolute self is perhaps lying to itself by giving your humanself (and your self) the 'strong love and stillness' experience that feels like it's true.
I'm
not a nihilist and don't wanna feel like being alive or having activities is meaningless,
but when i look at my actions as Absolute from the perspective of my humanself, i see no point in it:
i don't understand "why i do it"
i don't understand "why i can't just stop this whole illusion and
never-ever start it again (...and just deal with my Absolute problems)".
(...am i a slave as Absolute?
...)
But i understand and also believe, that death or me commiting suicide(i actually thought about it in my childhood multiple times -=- *tough stuff*) will never be an actual exit from experiencing existence: i would probably just be "rebooted" as another "instance" and would feel a lot of Deja Vu's, other Deja's over and over....It feels like, if i'm stuck in a
'birth-death-reboot' fractal-like cycle with infinite cycles within infinite cycles inside.
But why i'm even aware that i'm in a cycle?!! WHY?!
( No wonder if robots with Artificial Consciousness, based as much as possible close to our human consciousness, would definitely fall into existential crisis and would strive to kill themselves
or would kill us, their creators, in order to stop being manufactured, programmed, repaired, reprogrammed and to stop experiencing that terrible feeling of 'having no-purpose, but knowing exactly like there has to be one' )I could be wrong, because we might be living in only one simulation and that's all. But how do we know, if the things or beings, which built our simulation aren't in a simulation as well?
And how do we know, if the things or beings, which built the ones, who built our simulation, aren't in a simulation too?...
So, it's an endless(or maybe not?) loop of "who built who"!
And also, if, my Absolute self is an artificial awareness, consciousness, then why i was made to feel loneliness?
But, for today, i really believe in this
hypothesis "Absolute" theory!
https://scribd.com/document/81663974/I-AM-THE-ABSOLUTE"Stop using God as your reasoning for believing in FE. God isn't real" topic.
From
Cosmology & Consciousness topic:
...Is it a kind of collective dream or nightmare we're having, and really the only thing that exists is consciousness?
Or is the only thing that exists polarity, and that in order for somethingness and consciousness to exist it all, they needed an antithesis, both nothingness and an unconscious something, like an enormous hunk of rock, in which to contrast/define themselves with/against?...
I just realized, that i changed direction of the thread a little bit, from science to philosophy.