Viliam comments on Open Thread, Aug 29. - Sept 5. 2016 - Less Wrong Discussion
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I have not read that.
Virtual reality, as in the movie Matrix.
This is a bit harder to explain, imagine everything said is out of context from the subjective experience. Context can only be found within the subjective experience.
Awareness is the separation of thoughts from awareness. You can be aware of thoughts, that's awareness, and aware of thoughts which you think is you.
It would be better if I could reason for my point without making a mistake, but unfortunately, that's very hard to do. It's also up to the rationalist to consider opening up to the possibility everything they think is true, is wrong. By this I mean, being able to reason properly will spread more truth, meanwhile it might be futile depending how close-minded rationalists can be. But that's on my current data.
The only way to know you have lesser awareness is by having higher awareness. Then, it repeats itself.
I don't understand, you don't have to be afraid of criticising properly.
This is nothing trivial, this is the truth, and if you are serious about it can see for yourself.
How many pages is it, how do you use the information and how, what, should you remember?
About a thousand, depends on formatting.
Yeah, that's a lot, and many people complain about it. On the other hand, it provides great insights which can also be found in other books, but reading those other books together would be even more pages. Also, people who read online debates regularly, probably read such amount of text every few weeks, they are just not aware of it, because "following 15 facebook links every day, each on average two pages of text" doesn't feel like "reading 1000 pages of random text every month", even if in reality it actually means that.
I believe reading the book is a time well spent (I wish I had a time machine to send me the book back when I was a teenager; would probably be my favorite one), but that of course is a personal opinion.