Shell Beach
Anyone seen Dark City? If you haven’t, this might ruin it for you.
Expectations and Discrepancy
If you heard on the weather report saying that it’s going to rain today and you carry a huge, heavy umbrella wherever you go, given that you don’t like rain, would you hope that it will rain? Would you want something bad to happen because you have prepared for it?
Purpose — Part 2
Purpose (part 1) preluded some concepts such that purpose is the sum of actions of an individual. With respect to the individual, its purpose is absolutely everything it’s got, which has a lot to do with natural selection believe it or not. While natural selection is a phenomenon (or at least a belief that scientists use to explain evolution of species), I will talk about it as a an objective process here.
Purpose — Part 1
I’m sure many of you have seen and been confused by the plot of The Matrix Reloaded. The movie features a series of events based on beliefs such as the purpose of an individual. It seems kind of dumb to answer all questions with “because it’s my/its purpose.” But logically it makes sense to think about events and static objects in terms of their purposes. Here is part 1 of the philosphical explanations The Matrix didn’t offer.
Free Will
This post seemed inevitable due to recent discussion on predestination and cause and effect. So do human beings have free will? Can we actually decide what it is we want for ourselves, or are we bound by the incomprehensible environment factors that eventually lead us to an inevitable path?
I’d like to start by refreshing your memories of The Matrix (Reloaded & Revolutions). If you recall, one of the central themes of the trilogy was fate and inevitability. One conversation stuck in my mind is with the Oracle (if you don’t know, she is a know-it-all) and Neo (the main character played by the dull and boring actor Keanu Reeves).
Predestination
Is everything in this world predestined? Does it matter what you do, or is everything that was supposed to happen ultimately going to happen no matter what?
As helpless and useless thinking this may be, it makes sense that the world is on a timeline of continuing predestination. Everything in the world will happen only one way, no matter how we try to change it, because what we change is ultimately the future.
Ideas Are Patterns
Every industry, profession or field of research is based on observations and results of previous experiments. If the expected outcome is a success, then this method of doing things is considered valuable to the field of study. It is then further studied and played around with. The point of this process is that every idea taught in school, read in a book, or derived from formulas is essentially a form of patterns of observations or derivations based on other patterns.
The Illusion Generator
Possibly the greatest illusion generator would be the human brain. A large part of the brain serves as a biological basis for consciousness and awareness. This consciousness is so complex (as scientists haven’t found out much about it yet) that it needs to organize incoming information. Illusion is defined to be the process of this organization.
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