RE: What if..
January 20, 2015 at 12:45 pm
(This post was last modified: January 20, 2015 at 12:46 pm by SteelCurtain.)
(January 20, 2015 at 5:01 am)Alex K Wrote:(January 19, 2015 at 11:31 pm)TRJF Wrote: Good catch; most people didn't catch the metaphysical subtext of the Legally Blonde movies. The way Reese Witherspoon played a body that thought she was at Harvard Law School but was actually a battery hooked up to a machine in a simulated consciousness was incredible.
Wasn't it obvious in the end though, in the scene where she figures out the thing with whether that other woman had gotten a perm or not? That was such a transparent metaphor for her sudden insight into the philosophical consequences of transhumanism.
Outed.
(January 20, 2015 at 4:49 am)Xeno Wrote: The matrix theory is nice and all, but there's one question... why the simulation? If someone else is profiting from us, wouldn't it be better to just put us in a coma? Why bother and create a whole reality?
Maybe we're more efficient with brain stimulation?
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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