If every day is a new day, you don’t really know if you entered the same reality you were in, or if it shifted slightly to some other variation where it feels like it’s the same but it really isn’t. 🤨
Would there be a way to test that? 🤔
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A divergence meter. It's common enough knowledge in the mad scientist community.
There’s a mad scientist community? How does one access that?
I'm aware of a branch office in Akihabha, Japan, but that's about it for me. Not exactly a card-carrying member myself.
The main takeaway is that this universe-tracking technology is a very common tool for this community. No mystery or mysticism about it.
Just science!
🤔 quite interesting…
The only way I can distinguish between a new day to me is from the level of my energy and the quality of my thoughts.
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Days are imaginary. They're man-made constructs used to delineate time, just as hours, minutes, and seconds are. Without humans there would be no days.
👍 there is a time when you wake up and that’s a start of something
It's totally subjective. From your perspective, it's the start of a new day but it just exists in your mind. I'm reality, the closest thing to a day is the sun cycle that from our perspective looks like the sun rising in the east in the morning (another man-made construct), and setting in the west in the evening. But even that doesn't really exist because the sun doesn't actually rise and set. it just looks that way, again from our perspective, when in fact it's just how we perceive the perpetual rotation of the earth.
Yeah but subjective from my perspective is what I care about.
I guess if you watch a person sleep, they wake up in the same “space”. But, is it them - the person who fell asleep (their energy - whatever that is), or did it go elsewhere?
Where would they have gone? They're right there.
That assumes one continuous consciousness is bound to the body.
True, but when I wake up in the morning I remember before I fell asleep, and I remember my dreams. There are obviously periods of my sleep when I don't have any memories, but before and after those periods I seem to have a consistent sense of self. If there was some other consciousness, I don't when it would be active.
Maybe your brain reconstructs your identity when you wake up but your other consciousness is gone elsewhere. You feel continuous because the brain loaded the data it stored of you from long term memory (think hard drive) but the new instance of you is not in any shape related to the one that was there before you fell asleep.
there is a circadian rhythm
people poop at the same time every day
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I'd rather call it "cycles", since every measure of "time" is with the planetary revolution around the sun. And a "day" is just a word to mean a completed cycle of that revolution.
Today 1+1 = 5
test the other side.
each day is new and untethered to all previous days. reality is fluid and dynamic. you don't have to be who you thought you were.
Reminds me of Descartes' simple stuff I remember that was also echoed in the Matrix. Have you ever had a dream you really believed was real only to find you were asleep? And then wakebup again from that? The brain is driving and you only get to experience the reality it reveals to you. And you are blind to the inputs and most of the background processing. Dropping acid will demonstrate that its a chemical processes with "knobs" you can turn and get different results. Crazy ass shit 😂
I’ve had a more profound experience than waking up from a dream in a dream. I talked about it once briefly but trying to verbalize it now makes me sound insane to myself, so I won’t.
No worries my brain will make up something cool up to help me imagine it with no tarnish to you character😂
It’s no big deal I can share again. Basically, I once had a dream that felt like it lasted a lifetime. I would think nothing of it except that when I woke up I felt like I was torn out of my own (different) life. But in this dream I had a different family and I wasn’t really me but someone else. I felt deeply sad .. maybe depressed even for a day. It was as close to a religious experience as I can imagine and I don’t have those ever.
But, thinking about it now, it feels like I could have overimagined things and it’s hard for me to believe that’s an actual thing that happened. If I was someone else telling me this I’d think they are batshit crazy.
This but when you zone out and come back to consciousness