MrMind comments on Reality is arational. - Less Wrong

-10 Post author: reguru 09 September 2016 04:08PM

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Comment author: MrMind 13 September 2016 07:32:25AM 0 points [-]

Gravity is within arational reality, it's our label whether it is classical or modern physics. Gravity is a human projection. Your brain is a human projection.

You are avoiding the question. If the concept of "gravity" is a human projection, why changing the projection doesn't change the fact that you cannot fly?

Comment author: reguru 13 September 2016 08:56:04AM 0 points [-]

I don't fully understand what you mean.

Gravity is a human projection.

But why would being aware something is a human projection change the projection itself?

Comment author: MrMind 14 September 2016 10:03:25AM *  0 points [-]

I'm saying a different thing, but possibly we are assigning very different meanings to words, in which case one of us is hopelessly confused.

What I'm saying is that I have a way to think about gravity that might be different from other people. Maybe in the past they thought differently about gravity, maybe there is someone who is convinced about levitation and that the mind is able to defeat gravity. Different people --> different projections.

So: why those different projections aren't able the change the underlying fact that gravity works in a certain way that is independent from those projections?