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#1 thereal25
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@outworld222: Congratulations.

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#2 thereal25
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Yes, I think so.

Liking something more than games doesn't take your gamer status away.

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#3 thereal25
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Didn't live up to the hype. Just average, or perhaps slightly better than average.

They pretty much handed everything to the player in the first 30 minutes of the game - spoiling the progressive feel that rpgs generally have.

Far too much emphasis on collecting stuff and they took away weapon/armor degradation which only served to make inventory management more tedious.

The speech from npcs seemed kind of distant/muffled which lowered interest/immersion. And then there was the story which was not only absurd but rather tedious and unfun.

And generally it was just a shooting simulator with much less choice and player agency than what Fallout 3 had.

Even the dialogue options where limited compared to its predecessor.

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@wladolfputler said:
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@palasta:

Yes, it would seem that everything is interacting with everything else in SUCH a precise way, that the only possibility regarding free will is that GOD alone has it.

You´re truly a lost sheep.

One of the explanations as to why everything in this universe is so "precise" can be a Multiverse, "God" is only an excuse made by rather "dumb" lifeforms or "downright smart" people who used it to gather control over all the sheeps running around.

Think of God as the universe if you like. It's all interconnected and operating as one "machine" if you like. Therefore the thoughts we're thinking, the words we're speaking and the feelings we're feeling at any given time are not something that we as individuals have any control over. Nature is just doing its thing. One thing leads to another.

But that's not the same thing as saying that everything is predetermined. There appears to be some randomness thrown in which quantum physics confirms.

So nothing is set in stone. The future is like a branch of possibilities. Some more likely than others. And obviously it's easier to see near-future events than far out ones because of the randomness of life.

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#5 thereal25
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@palasta:

@palasta said:
@thereal25 said:

Well they say the everything that has ever happened, is happening, and ever will happen is actually happening right now.

So in other words time is an illusion.

But of course these concepts can be difficult for the human mind to grasp.

The illusion of time... yea, i think Einstein muttered sth like this in a rather unscientific context.

But Time isn't a solitary player, Time is a property of Space... hence SpaceTime.

Is everything an illusion then? Without time, no space, Singularity. Are you saying only a singularity is really real? Really really real?

The more space an object "occupies", the less time. Or the faster an object moves, the less time to calculate relatively to everything else. Black holes, so much mass/space, so little time. A photon, no mass/space, all the time. The reason why there is a speed limit, why there is time dilation. You would require all mass/space to reach lightspeed, but time you would have none.

Yea, Relativity hints to a limit in processing power, a strong indicator that the universe is some sort of data processing entity (computer in a basement, god, super-ape etc). In principile the same as with video games. In a racing game CPU/GPU GPCSDP or whatever have limited resources to display a car traversing the world. The faster the car goes, the more space it occupies, the less time the PU has to calculate the incoming world, which leads to the familiar dilemma of better graphics or more FPS. The faster an object travels through the universe, the less time it is given, because resources are reserved for space, resp. interaction. Why does the Universe need so much compute power=energy to calculate a moving object in our reality? Chaos theory? In a racing game a car exists little more than on a predetermined path, with barely any interaction in the world surrounding it. But in our reality everything has cause and effect from smallest to largest scale. We know how much more energy is needed to display a little bit of environmental destruction in a game and therefore we have a notion how much more would be needed to display objects and interactions up from an atomic level. Maybe the limitations in processing power is also the reason why the Universe expands. It saves recources. All the objects increasing distances from one another with respective speeds can't interact. Equivalent to better graphics or more world to display, the expansion makes sure of far less "chaos".

Anyway, at very least we can say that the Universe is deterministic and you have no free will. :D

Great post!

Yes, it would seem that everything is interacting with everything else in SUCH a precise way, that the only possibility regarding free will is that GOD alone has it.

It sure seems as though we little humans have free will/choice but that is merely an illusion - just as with time and space.

In regards to what is real and what isn't, I think it's all real - it's just that that unenlightened species tend to perceive things not as they are.

God is both nothing and everything.

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#6 thereal25
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We're living in a time of great challenge, uncertainty and fear.

There are obviously some real problems facing mankind and people are scrambling to find the "solutions" to these problems.

But what's gone wrong in my opinion is that people are arguing not from common sense or logic but rather from emotion.

It's always easy to discern the less intelligent because they want to have their way through brute force and have zero patience for any differing opinions or sensible debate.

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Fallout 3: Arlington Library

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#8 thereal25
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@wladolfputler said:
@thereal25 said:

But I noticed you said in another post that consciousness cannot store information - it can only observe.

I'm not so sure about that though, because there are numerous testimonies of people who have left their bodies (in NDE's and other ways) while still having memories of their Earthly selves.

Another great point you have there, showing that there in fact are users here who think about the subject rather than looking at my nickname/avatar and deciding to come here with their either half-assed theories but in fact just trying to hump-rape my leg.

Anyway, as you said, in my theory, consciousness can only observe but not store information (at least not in the same way as brain is storing memory). So what could there probably happen with those OBEs (out of the body experiences) or NDEs (near death experiences)?

Well this is not an easy to grasp turf! To begin with...are OBEs and NDEs actually the same or working the same way? What really happens, when such things are happening? Is "something" really "leaving the body" here or is this something the brain is experiencing? According to our great "scientists" out there, it is "just something" the brain is experiencing, as like it is producing some kind of chemical stuff similiar to a "drug", what causes "hallucinations".

Well if it is just "hallucinations" caused by the brain, why are having so many people the same "hallucination" then, aren´t they supposed to see different things rather than a tunnel or even better...sense/see/experience what´s actually happening in another room?

As to the question if consciousness is now capable of storing information or not, i just can´t see any reason as to why consciousness should do that, on the other hand...nothing is impossible and of course i could be wrong with several aspects in my theories or being completely wrong with everything to begin with!

Another question is, if consciousness is an "infinite" entity/energy-form and it would store information, it would store infinite information infinitely...which just seems kinda "awkward" to me, but then again there are other "awkward" theories from "scientists" (like we are living inside some simulation or somehow "inside some hologram") which could as well be true.

Only because we don´t understand something or think it actually makes no sense, doesn´t mean it can´t be real, so i am actually also saying that consciousness doesn´t makes sense at all, no matter how you see it, but then again only human beings always search for a meaning everywhere since their minds can´t grasp to just exist without any meaning or reason.

I appreciate your thoughful and humble respsonse.

Yes, this is indeed tricky territory.

In regards to the scientific theory about nde's, obe's etc. being just something that's happening in the brain... well that doesn't explain pre-birth/ past life memories.

@warmblur said:

Does the past still exist?

Well they say the everything that has ever happened, is happening, and ever will happen is actually happening right now.

So in other words time is an illusion.

But of course these concepts can be difficult for the human mind to grasp.

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@wladolfputler said:
@thereal25 said:

My understanding is that the words consciousness/awareness/soul are interchangeable.

So the soul enters the physical body sometime when the fetus begins development in the womb.

And after death of a physical body the soul moves on to a subtler density.

As for clones, I believe that each would have a unique soul.

Of course an interesting point you have, while i "hate" to use the word "soul" since it has an way too religious aspect to people. In my opinion, consciousness and the possibility of it "surviving death" has neither anything to do with a higher being (=a god) nor religion, in fact there is nothing "mysterious" or "paranormal" about it, as it is just something regularily and naturally happening in this universe.

I also do not think consciousness (...or the "soul" if you really want to describe it as such) is really "entering" the physical body as it is probably more of like "attaching" to it in ways not neccessarily meaning something like the "attachment" of two "physical objects". What i mean is like consciousness functioning on a wave-basis while the brain could like "receiving" it.

There are actual other theories in the same direction, claiming that brain functions like a "tv-set" with consciousness being received and having its source somewhere else, probably inside some "quantum-realm" etc.

Yes, I like the way you think. Makes sense.

But I noticed you said in another post that consciousness cannot store information - it can only observe.

I'm not so sure about that though, because there are numerous testimonies of people who have left their bodies (in NDE's and other ways) while still having memories of their Earthly selves.

Also, it's quite possible to see past lives!

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#10 thereal25
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My understanding is that the words consciousness/awareness/soul are interchangeable.

So the soul enters the physical body sometime when the fetus begins development in the womb.

And after death of a physical body the soul moves on to a subtler density.

As for clones, I believe that each would have a unique soul.