Multiple Time Lines Article
First off I'd like to add to the protocol that english is not my mother tounge, nor have I ever lived or even been in an english speaking country so it's possible I misinterpit things every now and then. Same goes for what I write; I might be using the wrong words here and there. Just so you know why if I seem to write something very odd
So it's rather a question of defenition then.. I think of it as we live in the same one universe/timeline/dimension and that we all live in our different perceptions of it.
I guess thats only normal unless you and Satan are identical twins. If you were made out of the same DNA you would probably be alot more alike. How you percieve the world is, just as you write further down your perceptions are based on your pervious experiences and it's highly unlikely you and Satan or any two people have the exact same experiences.
Again, I think its the same timeline/reality, only percieved in different way - therefore: constants.
Actually, infinite number of cats in infinite number of realities beeing put in infinite number of boxes. In some cases, that cat dies, in others it survives. Separate events in separate realities.
<!--QuoteBegin-Grayson@Aug 27 2004, 10:47 PM
No, that is not the way our minds work. If it were that simple, we'd have no crimes, nor criminals. In fact, following a simple surgical procedure, every Government on Earth would have a happy population.
The brain may work by complex bio-nuerological processes which are analogous to your statement here, but the invidious complexities of the mind are not so simply labelled for all to see.
The Brain is already a quantum machine, that's why we don't completely understand what it does, or how it does it.
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So you are saying our minds are partly something not made out of matter? Something like the soul? I don't think I want to get into that discussion if that is the case
I think it's highly possible, if we had the technology, to do not-so-simple surgical operations in the brain to change personalities, memories or whatever.
First off I'd like to add to the protocol that english is not my mother tounge, nor have I ever lived or even been in an english speaking country so it's possible I misinterpit things every now and then. Same goes for what I write; I might be using the wrong words here and there. Just so you know why if I seem to write something very odd

Originally posted by Grayson+Aug 27 2004, 10:47 PM--><div class='quotemain'>Technically the author is right, we do live in little pocket Universe's, each the creation of our own perception.
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So it's rather a question of defenition then.. I think of it as we live in the same one universe/timeline/dimension and that we all live in our different perceptions of it.
Originally posted by Grayson@Aug 27 2004, 10:47 PM
How do you know that the world is what it is? By seeing, tasting, touching, smelling and hearing the world around you. To assume that everyone see's, hears, tastes' touches and smells the same world that you do, is preposterous. Why? Well, we know that barring a disability which impairs the function of a major sense, we are all technically made to the same basic blueprint and capable of sensing the same stimuli. But, literally trillions of us have been built over the last coupla hundred millenia and we must assume that basic design defects are endemic to the process, else we would all be the same in our functional sex groupings.
We are not, my Medulla is vastly different to Satan's, so is my Cerebellum and my Amygdala. The nerves from my fingers are a different length to his as is the depth of both my epidermis and subcutaneous fat layers. Add to this, the simple fact that my brain chemistry is different and my eyesight operates with a completely different layout of the nerve cabling to occipital cortex, then you see how vastly different we are.
I guess thats only normal unless you and Satan are identical twins. If you were made out of the same DNA you would probably be alot more alike. How you percieve the world is, just as you write further down your perceptions are based on your pervious experiences and it's highly unlikely you and Satan or any two people have the exact same experiences.
Originally posted by Grayson@Aug 27 2004, 10:47 PM
In essence, the Universe that I percieve is not the same as his, yet there are constants. Water is wet, Padraic is still a liar and the Moon orbits both our perceptions of the Earth on which we both live. Our perception of time is also different and as such, we are in different perceptual realities for ever and a day, never to share the same perception of Space and Time. You have an experience and all that data from the experience has impacted organic sensors, travelled down nerve pathways, over axons and dendrytes, navigating the nueral nexus to be dissassembled, interpreted and cognitavely processed by a machine that shares no architectural parity with any other like machine, you can't be surprised that aren't in the same Universe.
Again, I think its the same timeline/reality, only percieved in different way - therefore: constants.
Originally posted by Grayson@Aug 27 2004, 10:47 PM
Why are there two Cats? Is it inconceivable that the Cat simply dies? In this instance, we don't have to worry about alternate time-lines do we?
Actually, infinite number of cats in infinite number of realities beeing put in infinite number of boxes. In some cases, that cat dies, in others it survives. Separate events in separate realities.
<!--QuoteBegin-Grayson@Aug 27 2004, 10:47 PM
No, that is not the way our minds work. If it were that simple, we'd have no crimes, nor criminals. In fact, following a simple surgical procedure, every Government on Earth would have a happy population.
The brain may work by complex bio-nuerological processes which are analogous to your statement here, but the invidious complexities of the mind are not so simply labelled for all to see.
The Brain is already a quantum machine, that's why we don't completely understand what it does, or how it does it.
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So you are saying our minds are partly something not made out of matter? Something like the soul? I don't think I want to get into that discussion if that is the case

I think it's highly possible, if we had the technology, to do not-so-simple surgical operations in the brain to change personalities, memories or whatever.