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January 20, 2015 at 9:00 am
Well, Agent Smith is a much better antagonist than Satan. He has sunglasses.
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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.

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(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?
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January 20, 2015 at 12:50 pm (This post was last modified: January 20, 2015 at 12:51 pm by Norman Humann.)
(January 20, 2015 at 12:45 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote:
(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?

Maybe, but stimulation would require energy. And the brain is most active when asleep. Keeping us alive without the stimulation would seem to save energy, therefore being more economic.

I'm not sure though, correct me if I'm wrong.
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January 20, 2015 at 3:40 pm
(January 20, 2015 at 12:50 pm)Xeno Wrote:
(January 20, 2015 at 12:45 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: Maybe we're more efficient with brain stimulation?

Maybe, but stimulation would require energy. And the brain is most active when asleep. Keeping us alive without the stimulation would seem to save energy, therefore being more economic.

I'm not sure though, correct me if I'm wrong.

So when we die here we wake up and who knows what we will wake up too.
The other theory i seen only also fitted into this category were all asleep in a simulation on some sort of advance starship of some sort in stasis and were one of the many crew and residents on it. Though it would be kinda cool though now wouldn't it? Big Grin ROFLOL ill be like some engineer or something.
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