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Whenever neo sees the green rain code the programs are constantly changing. A pattern remains but the code just keeps flowing. Humans on the other hand do have some physicality and continuity because, they have to hook their actual brains and bodies to the program.

My question is is it the same for programs. Is there someplace where the programs are stored physically, and we just see what the physical program tells the code to write?

How and why did he have access to enough power to destroy both The matrix and the machine City, Why did he become so nihilistic, and unstable? All the rogue programs we see in the films are just trying to survive, and stay under the radar, they don't have anything close to Smith's power not even the Merovingian. Most of them don't seem to have Smith's existential crisis either. So could someone explain to me what was supposed to be going on with him? I've never understood.

You know how they say that you can't tell that there's light unless you have darkness. Well I was wondering if the same thing applies to consciousness.

If we had no concept of unconsciousness or memory of ever being unconscious would we still be able to recognize that we were conscious?

Obviously I realize the AI could just lie, however putting that aside I think we could tell whether AI is conscious by what kind of things it starts to show interest in. For instance if the AI starts to show a lot of interest and problems like Mary's room, are the hard problem of consciousness, and the experience Gap, I think we could reasonably assume that the artificial intelligence is trying to figure something out that it can explain with the data. Or that it's experiencing awareness.

If almost everyone on Earth was sharing the same consciousness wouldn't that consciousness be inconceivably more intelligent then a single human, because it would have the memories and processing power of like eight billion brains?

What I'm asking is has there been other times in the history of life where a single species been able to evolve to such a level where other species are no longer even really competition for them?

I'm really confused on the topic of free will. Some people act like it's a physics thing, other people act like it's a neuroscience thing, and still others act like it's a spiritual thing. What exactly is it? Am I supposed to be depressed that I don't have it, they always show people being super depressed whenever they learn that they don't have free will but I don't even understand what I'm missing out on. What would a person have to be like to have true free will?

Is there any meditation technique that allows you to "detect" things beyond your five/six senses. If so how do you learn to do it?

My parents are in their sixties and seventies now, and every time I call them or visit they're watching westerns. They like those western tv shows like wagon train, and gunsmoke, and Bonanza. It wouldn't bother me, but it's like the only thing they watch from morning till night, and I don't even know if they know what's going on in the episode sometimes (it's kind of creepy).

If I try to turn it on something different or more modern my dad's the worst he won't even give it a chance if it's past 1980, and my mom acts like she doesn't understand what's going on. Is this normal behavior?

Has any one ever had their hemispheres split and then had them reconnected? I wonder if they would be able to tell which side they were conscious in. Maybe they were conscious in both sides but to a lesser extent whenever the brain is split. I know some animals like dolphins do this all the time. One side of the brain will be on and the other side will be asleep.

I've also seen split brain patients with them it seems like one side is completely quiet and the other side has language, I assume the conscious side would be the one with language. However my question is if you reattached the two sides what what would the person report feeling? Has an experiment like this ever been attempted?

Whenever I go outside and I look at a tree do I really see the tree, or am I just thinking that I see the tree? Like is my brain just thinking that it's conscious?

Relativity was a big one for me. The idea that time can vary from place to place really expands my view of the universe. Another example is whenever I conceived of how the fourth dimension would work, that really opened up all kinds of new possibilities and ways of thinking for me.

I'm just curious to see what other ideas or concepts have you come across that have given you whole new ways of thinking?

That seems like a task they would have really hated. They probably would rather be deleted then have to undergo that.

Did they draw straws or something?

The other day I was considering the theory that your entire conscious experience is a model happening inside your head, a controlled hallucination. I thought about that for a minute and I realized that the entire universe that I was observing at that moment was just a hallucination happening inside my head for me. After a minute I held my hand up in front of my head, and I saw my simulated hand inside my conscious simulation, but then it occurred to me that there must also be a real hand on the outside of the simulation, far beyond the stars that I can see that's bigger than the whole universe that I'm currently observing within my consciousness. Is this true?

Me and my friend were arguing about this. I said it would make the value go up, because if I can point to a hole in my wall and I could say

" Muhammad Ali did that back in 1975."I suppose most people would be impressed by that. My friend says you would still have to prove it, and I said well what if he signed it as well?

There is a scene in the original matrix film where Smith is interrogating Morpheus and he says something interesting. "And I say your civilization, because as soon as? we started thinking for you it really became our civilization.". Have we reached or even gone past the point that Smith referred to in the original film?

As far as I know Buddhism doesn't believe in any continuity of consciousness or any sort of observer. I believe they think that there is seeing but no sear, thinking but no thinker. Why do Buddhists believe this and why does vidanta think there is an observer?

In my mind I was thinking he uses it in a mocking way.

To me whenever he uses it against Homelander it's like he is saying for all your power resources and money, you're nothing but a glorified crowbar, just a thing to increase persons strength.

Sometimes the realization that I am going to die and not exist forever, and I have no choice in the matter it will happen, and I'm hurtling toward it with each passing second, that thought terrifies me. It seems so terrifying it feels like I'm going to lose my mind or do something stupid.

Can thoughts like this make you go insane, or will the terror always eventually subside?

Several times in my life I believe I have come extremely close, however every time it happens I become filled with existential terror and back out. To me it feels like I'm losing myself, and I don't know where to find it or even if it really ever existed. For me it feels like dying.

However I have heard from people who made it all the way through and they talk about it like it's pure Bliss. They say you feel like pure consciousness and you're full of love. They say you feel connected to everything in the universe whatever that means. I have even heard that whenever people start to feel their ego coming back it's a very sad experience for them, some people say coming back from an eager death is even harder than losing your ego.

I would really like to know what it's like. Has anyone here ever experienced this?