RE: The ways to know reality?
August 25, 2012 at 9:47 pm
(This post was last modified: August 25, 2012 at 9:47 pm by Cyberman.)
If it does actually turn out that we're in a Matrix-style artificial reality, a CGI Truman Show, then as far as I'm concerned it makes absolutely no difference to the way we live and interact with the Universe and reality anyway. As Matt Dillahunty might say, "so what?" Okay, so our reality is nothing but some bizarre computer simulation and the only thing missing is the green diamonds over our heads. What can we do about it? Absolutely nothing whatsoever, it's our reality whatever it turns out ultimately to be.
Quote:Slartibartfast: Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I think that the chances of finding out what's actually going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say, "Hang the sense of it," and keep yourself busy. I'd much rather be happy than right any day.
Arthur Dent: And are you?
Slartibartfast: No. That's where it all falls down, of course.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
