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Originally Posted by Rosie  Ohhhh I understand. When you say everything is happening in your consciousness...you mean that it is eqaully everyone's consciousness, a shared collective dream, and we are all one? |
I disagree. Look at the movie "The Matrix". Where was the world of the matrix unfolding? Meaning, there were millions of people inside pods. Each pod had a jack directly into their brains. Each of these people were being fed stimuli to make them THINK that they are in a world called the Matrix. Inside that world Two people would go to work and the Matrix would feed the stimuli to both people so that when one person would talk, the other person's brain would "receive" that thought and respond to it.
However, lets say that one person in the Matrix kicks you. He doesn't REALLY kick you, just the thought of him kicking you enters your brain and you think you got kicked so you feel pain as if you did. However, you didn't really get kicked. If you realized you were inside a matrix, people could kick you, but you could CHOOSE not to respond to the stimuli realizing that you're safe in your pod and nobody can really kick you inside the matrix.
So, in essence, YOU create your own world inside your head. So does the other person. When that person kicks you, in his world you SHOULD feel pain, but in your world you can choose not to.
Just thinking of it this way, introduces so many complications already, like who's "world" is really in existance? If you're in one room and I'm in the other and we don't see eachother, does the furniture in my room exist in your reality and does the furniture in your reality exist in mine?
Let's say that there was a master hypnotist and he had a TV show that was broadcast to EVERYONE on earth at the same time. Like EVERY SINGLE person watched it, without missing a single person. Even the hypnotist watched it and it had the same effect on him too, he was that good. Lets say that hypnotist HYPNOTIZED everyone and told them that they will erase the existance of a planet called PLUTO from their memory and consciousness and it will not exist to them anymore. Would PLUTO disappear?
If it did disappear, what would happen if one person missed watching the show? Would PLUTO re-appear for everyone, or just that one person?