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A thought experiment: The rainbow temple
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A thought experiment: The rainbow temple
Imagine climbing a mountain to visit a Buddhist temple with rooms painted each color of the rainbow. You walk through the entire temple then you stop in the red room, all you see is red but the rest of the temple exists in your mind and recent memory.

If you think of the universe like a maze or giant temple you only see part at a time, the rest of the universe you assume based on a probable model.

For example right now you can’t see behind you but you assume it still exists, that has to do with probability, you assume there isn't a fire or monster behind you. Our sense of reality has to do with memory and probability because we only directly see very little.

This also has to do with recognition like how a baby doesn't realize fire is hot but when you see fire you assume it is hot based on memory. You recognize fire.
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A thought experiment: The rainbow temple - by Escherscurtain - March 24, 2014 at 4:55 pm
RE: A thought experiment: The rainbow temple - by Losty - March 24, 2014 at 6:22 pm
RE: A thought experiment: The rainbow temple - by ShaMan - March 27, 2014 at 8:25 pm
RE: A thought experiment: The rainbow temple - by Endo - August 8, 2014 at 1:53 am

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