Here's a Twist of reality for ya!..Bank of America analysts: 50% chance we live in a matrix… literally
I once did some "down stream" thinking on, at what point might we out invent ourselves with nowhere else to go...I came to the conclusion that we would reach max entropy after inventing "dimensions within dimensions"...seems that's where these people think we are headed for.
"But also, what the hell is a bank saying stuff like that to their clients for anyway? Consider what your conception of a bank is. I guess they deal in fake money on manipulated stock markets, so that makes them experts on what is and isn’t real?"
I just can't take this seriously, so let's treat it with clever humor.
"But also, what the hell is a bank saying stuff like that to their clients for anyway? Consider what your conception of a bank is. I guess they deal in fake money on manipulated stock markets, so that makes them experts on what is and isn’t real?"
I just can't take this seriously, so let's treat it with clever humor.
When you can plainly see a flying saucer, you are not looking at an Unidentified Flying Object.
You are looking at an IDENTIFIED flying saucer.
Anyone who says different can go fly a kite, me dino says. Yeah, they can go fly a kite.
You know, there's lots of great high places you can go fly a kite from.
Consider the high places provided by the ruins of the Aztecs, Mayans and Incas. Unlike Egypt, American Indian pyramids provide plenty of steps to climb.
And anyone who disagrees with old dino about that can go fly a kite also.
https://www.latest-ufos.com/2016/09/s...
Here's some weird music for the kite people from outer space~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfOqq...
If the Matrix movie was reality then the financial system would in fact act this way, fake money, fake markets, fake crisis.
So the question is, do we take the red pill or continue to take the blue one?
Our skull, gives shape to our gray matter.
But it's no matrix...there are too many ways to go and too many ways to get there...that statement might hold a clue.
It may also be how we have insight, knowledge gained without foreknowledge.
Think about this: before we realize it, artificial intelligent systems will be transporting us, cooking and cleaning for us, providing for our medical support, shopping for us, and probably dozens more activities that I haven't time to list. How does society assimilate this radical change to the world? With many unskilled and low skilled jobs becoming automated, what does our labor market become? How does revenue flow, and how do we earn the money to support ourselves? For the banks, the question is how financial institutions fit into such a radically changed society.
This of course is what the left, the non-conscious ruleless delite, want.
As for the left, the same can be said for the right with the supernaturalism of many and the mundaneness of everyday life. The rational faculty can be chosen by all humans and is done so to each individuals ability, which cannot be decided by others. All you have is your own mental processes and no matter how much you would like others to conform to yours, it cannot and will not happen.
Can one be tricked?, coerced or driven to do harm, are there illness that will contribute...yes...but at that point consciousness usually shuts down; access to the mind is blocked off...unfortunately, the sub-conscious still records everything. It will eventually drive most nuts; at that point all of the minds resources will be used to control it...Not much of a life at that point.
But make no mistake, there are those that are not at all consciously aware of their behavior, at that point...they are only a brain in a body. (just look at the creatures in government or those that want to Take self rule away from mankind). A good percentage of the world are still, pre or very weakly, conscious.
Just reading today about "executive Functions"...thoughts, beliefs, desires and memories. This is brain work and most achieve it by age 5, some sooner. Bicameral man had it, but was not aware of it and was overridden by the voice, which may have been hallucinated or one's own without realization, some were just guided by animal like instincts. There are those today that hear a voice of something or someone else and there are those with No voice at all...they cannot read to themselves or rehearse a speech in their heads.
The brain can do many things but it cannot observe itself...that takes a mind, (introspection). An no, everyone does not have it but most I would venture could achieve it.
I may not agree with you but your studies are interesting so keep going.
Executive functions should evolve normally but beyond that, observation in a healthy culture, even teaching is needed, although, observation, I think, is key...ie, observation of a good role model. That's why a village can't raise a child...it has to be a parent, someone close in which reward, approval, appreciation is possible.
Just some extra thoughts.
It is the same reason Bank of America money is not really real--not to mention all of our paper money..
Excuse me while I fade away into my smile.
Oops, how embarrassing. That's just my partial. Wait a minute! Is my partial all that's real?
It's struck me strange that a Representative of a large bank would say something like that...was that a "spoon full" of truth?
Bro' told me that some dude on that show in all seriousness said, "It's not IF a zombie apocalypse can happen but a matter of WHEN.."
Now off of that, me dino now be further reminded of years ago reading on my PC about someone going to a big outdoor.UFO shindig.
That someone wrote that one UFO enthusiast pointed up to a plain as daylight passenger jet and said, "Look! It's a UFO!"
The writer argued, "No, that's a passenger jet." The UFO nut became agitated. "No! Can't you see? That's a UFO! A UFO!"
That writer was likely having an encounter of the third kind with a Bank of America employee, who I'd personally like to talk to about the zombie apocalypse. .
I say often when given an incoherent response: What prescription Drugs are YOU on?
Such drugs are supposed to fix problems, but then again, yeah, there can be side effects.
It took him three years of working with doctors over which medications and dosages would settle him down.
That early on ride with his suicidal tendencies for about a year was scary as hell.
I suppose that's why, behavior, conscience, consciousness etc attracts me. Reading Julian Jaynes brought that quest back to mind.