"If the perception is changed, does it matter any more what the reality was?" I remember a professor saying that.
"If the perception is changed, does it matter any more what the reality was?" I remember a professor saying that. What I cannot remember is whether I was that professor. Was I a victim of experiments upon myself or was I the creation of experiments on me? That's the question I am pondering not as I try to reassemble the memories.
Could your condition be the result of your body rejecting individual memories implanted with different markers than your own?
ReplyDeleteTerrifying ponderings.
ReplyDeleteYes Dr Edgar Allan Wright . As we piece together the how your memories are connected, we will, in the process answer those questions.
ReplyDeleteI would say the reality still matters, but - in the moment, at least - it is less important than what is perceived.
ReplyDelete"Thus, although you may have the capacity to defeat an opponent, it is more advantageous to appear weak and incapable."
(I paraphrase, of course, from Sun Tzu's The Art of War, but I trust the point is clear.)
What is it like when you remember something? Is it a vision or do you just notice it?
ReplyDeleteI would think that reality would still matter weather the memories have been compromised or not. Your new reality may be reality to you, but unless the world around you has also conformed to this new reality you will have missing pieces. For example if you are talking on a analog phone connection with your friends. Your voice frequency has wave vibration to it. But if this line were digital, it would compromise the smoothness if you will, of the sound wave. You loose parts of the original, although you still can understand each other, our voices are not meant to be digital. So that said you would loose part of the resonance thus losing parts of reality.
ReplyDeleteSo if a biological was induced with something.... Lets say Synthetic. It would loose the smoothness of its biological operating system, thus depending on how intricate and detailed the induction, could and probably would lead to some sort of glitch.
Although you are brilliant Edgar Allan Wright , you do sound like there is a glitch in your operating system.
No offence of course!
It is also a possibility your condition is a side effect of experiments you were conducting, rather than being directly experimented upon. The nature of conducting an experiment means you risk exposing yourself to what you are trying to understand.
ReplyDeleteSo a bit of a wild theory here: if memories can be transplanted, could it be possible that you are or have the memories of the Professor R that was taken away by the NIA. It maybe the reason they took Professor R away was because he or you were never supposed to have that knowledge in the first place.
ReplyDeleteMelissa L. Thats sound possible. Technically all memories are just electrical pulses.
ReplyDeleteperception is reality, it is the measure we use as individualized consciousness. Most of what we call real is made up, they are ideas that mass consciousness has agreed to. In a very real way we all are our own experiments in consciousness. Our definitions of self, and history rely on our relationship to others.
ReplyDeleteReality exists independently from perception, as any teen who believes himself immortal can demonstrate. Perception however, is far more important than reality in prediction of behavior.
ReplyDeleteYour proof relies on someone to perceive the event of physical death. Which from my perspective only adds to perception being the measure of reality. If it needs demonstration someone/something must be perceiving the event.
ReplyDeleteFor the skeptical, there's radical constructivism, which is Plato's Cave taken to the logical extreme with our brains as the projector casting shadows. The act of perception is a result of our cognitive structures acting on input, and infer from that there is a reality out there. We cannot rule out the brain in a box hypothesis, nor the networked brains in boxes modern alternative. There's definitely a cognitive reality (cogito ergo sum), but what we term objective reality is distinct. The existence of perceptual illusions is evidence of distinctness.
ReplyDeleteJames Thirteen On top of what you said, imagine the program was written for IOS and is being run on Windows.
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