[quote]pookie wrote:
JohnnyBlaze wrote:
If you can picture different axes upon which multiple versions of this reality extend out like the frames on movie projector film, there could be many different versions of your lifetime and many different conclusions to it. Each choice you make changes the outcome to a different ‘set’ of conclusions, like switching rails on a train track.
Basically I think he’s referring to parallel universe theory.
Well that’s nice. But it’s still meaningless since you only get to experience one rail.
All that blather just comes down to saying that you think about past and future decisions. Everybody does that… most of us speak of it in terms of “experience” and “considering various factors before making a decision” instead of talking about exponential planes and infinite possibilities.
Should we consider you “special” because you’re able to make decisions by yourself? Sounds more impressive if you talk about it in terms of “navigating the planes of infinite possibilities” or “exponential expansions of choices” but at the end of the day, it’s the same thing everybody does everyday. Get over it.
Using big words and borrowing metaphors from quantum physics (where they’re actually useful) might dazzle some people and make them think you’re deep and mysterious, but anyone who takes a longer look can’t fail to notice that your lovely container is empty. When you’ve got nothing to say, it’s often best to just say nothing.
Then he says “Ultimately defined by your death which is but another level of consciousness or lack there of.”
I recall, there is a theory in the field of anaesthesiology that says consciousness is not a constant state, but a continuum, with more subtle states able to be accessed under anaesthesia. These can be defined as “levels” - i.e. say that waking consciousness is at 1, dreaming sleep is at -20, the different levels can go down to somewhere like -255.
Just reading this has me at about -197.
An expert anaesthesiologist can bring a person down to a selected ‘depth’ depending on the drug and dose used. I know this isn’t the most accurate or articulate explanation, but I vaguely recall this after reading of it many years ago.
And that defines his existentialist philosophy how exactly?
Unless the point is that he’s living his life while being barely conscious… that would fit. I doubt that’s what he had in mind. At least consciously.
So, I think he’s referring to death as being below the lowest level of anaesthetized consciousness, if told in light of this theoretical perspective.
So…?
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Well, I was just trying to interpret those sentences for you that did not communicate any meaning in your mind. So, now the information is conveyed. At least you got the point now and understood what was being communicated, regardless of your personal opinion on it.
I don’t subscribe to nihilism myself, but I do understand what the OP is talking about. I wasn’t defending or explaining his whole philosophy, just clarifying his definition of what “exponentially planar” means in regards to the initial question you asked.
