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MrMind comments on Open thread, Sep. 12 - Sep. 18, 2016 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: reguru 14 September 2016 12:48:03PM *  0 points [-]

So... you can change laws of physics?

I don't know, I'm not a physicist. Based on my limited knowledge is that you cannot change the map. Imagine everything in the world being a map called X, and it has a revision number. Just because you know the maps are X and have a revision number doesn't undermine the content of the maps themselves. Your life experience might become different, however.

Who is then?

For there to be control, there has to first be someone or something which can be controlled and a controller. All is illusionary. You can create maps, but they will still be maps in relation to the arational.

And why do you call it my Matrix, since I cannot affect it in any way?

I'm telling you in a practical sense since you have to have the experience yourself. You believe you are a creature, being of some kind. You can affect your matrix, by realizing it is a matrix, it's kind of paradoxical.

Comment author: MrMind 15 September 2016 07:21:07AM 0 points [-]

Based on my limited knowledge is that you cannot change the map.

At last, I've finally found something that you cannot change. Well then, just call this "reality" and discard everything we've said so far.

You can affect your matrix, by realizing it is a matrix, it's kind of paradoxical.

Yeah, call me when someone learns to affect the map.

Comment author: reguru 15 September 2016 03:25:59PM *  0 points [-]

At last, I've finally found something that you cannot change. Well then, just call this "reality" and discard everything we've said so far.

But if you are creating these maps at every given moment, isn't the maps changing depending on you? :D

Yeah, call me when someone learns to affect the map.

Can we call it your perception of the map? Because that's all there really is, that's why it's a map. Nothing exists which isn't in your present moment, except as maps.