Magic, Matter and Qualia (The God Series Book 20) by Mike Hockney

Author:Mike Hockney [Hockney, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Publisher: Hyperreality Books
Published: 2014-09-09T23:00:00+00:00

The Dream Key

Dreams entirely vindicate Berkeley. In dreams, we construct a “material” world that we know for a fact isn’t real. We “sense” this world not using our “physical” sense organs but internal simulations of our senses. If we can perceive a dreamworld to be real even though it isn’t, how do we know that the “real” material world is actually real? In scientific terms, what is the difference between dream “matter” and actual matter?

In The Matrix, humanity is fed a computer simulation of reality and finds it every bit as convincing as the real thing. In other words, humans find the idea of the thing as real as the thing itself. In which case, why refer to the thing at all? Who needs it? All we need is the idea.

In The Matrix, the Architect replaces Berkeley’s God and becomes the source of the “objective reality” experienced by humanity, and objective reality comprises a set of ordered dream ideas pumped into us.

In The Matrix, the world is an idea, our bodies are ideas, the air we breathe is an idea, gravity is an idea, all physical laws are ideas, food is an idea, bullets are ideas, death is an idea. Neo, by seeing through the illusion, becomes God. Ontological mathematics offers exactly the same possibility. You can become God by understanding that “reality” is an idea and that it can be manipulated, changed and overcome by the counter-ideas conjured by the most powerful minds.

Mathematics is how you change reality because mathematics is reality. When people say that mathematics is useless or irrelevant to their lives it means that they have chosen to accept the Matrix, and they will never be a Neo mastering and controlling the Matrix. You must understand that reality is an illusion before you can change the illusion. If you accept the illusion, you can’t change it. You simply live it, and endure it.

In your dreams, you breathe imaginary air, you eat imaginary food, you sit down on imaginary seats, you have conversations with imaginary people, and you even have sex with imaginary lovers (but might actually ejaculate!). If you can do all of that in your dreams, what makes you imagine that “reality” is so different?

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Cypher [The Matrix]: “You know, I know this steak doesn’t exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize? [Takes a bite of steak] ... Ignorance is bliss.”

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“Take [Locke’s] doctrine as to primary and secondary qualities. The primary qualities are defined as those that are inseparable from body, and are enumerated as solidity, extension, figure, motion or rest, and number. The secondary qualities are the rest: colours, sounds, smell, etc. The primary qualities, he maintains, are actually in bodies; the secondary qualities, on the contrary, are only in the percipient. Without the eye, there would be no colours; without the ear, no sounds, and so on. ... But Berkeley pointed out that the same arguments apply to primary qualities.

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