What if the fundamental nature of reality is a timeless ocean where every possible bundle of qualia - first person sensory experiences - exists within it? Time doesn’t actually exist, but the illusion of it could, as bundles could have false memories and expectations.
isn’t this just ‘brain in a jar’ and ‘last thursdayism’ blended up together and brought to a boil? this is some high-octane new-age hadalpelagic pseudocosmological nonsense. well done!
You wot mate?
What measurable difference would exist between that world and a more constrained one, that would make it significant to know we’re in one vs the other?
Oh no, I agree it’s entirely unfalsifiable. Just an interesting thought experiment.
Falsifiability aside, what I’m saying is that we either live in that world already, or in a fully contained subset of it.
Definitely. But you should take your medication BEFORE posting, not after.
This was better than 80% of the questions we get here, IMO.
Definitely. But you should take your meditation BEFORE posting, not after.
What? How could I have meditated after posting and still posted?




