Moses was high on drugs: Israeli researcher

[William T Goodall]

On 5 Mar 2008, at 17:01, Pat Mathews wrote:

>
>
> Suppose you are a brain in a jar, a prisoner in Plato's cave, or in  
> the Matrix. Then you have two choices. You can play the game as if  
> it were serious, as all god game players do, and treat real life as  
> real;

And all [sane] people who argue that one can't prove that we are not  
in the Matrix nevertheless act at all times exactly as if this had  
been proved so they don't really believe their own argument.


> or you can do as Plato;s escaped prisoner and Neo did, work your way  
> free, and try to get to ---
>
> ---to the real world? Or simply to the next level of the game?

If we are in some kind of false reality it is so comprehensive and  
realistic that finding a way out doesn't seem plausible.


> Aye, there's the rub.  And most of us have a lot of trouble deciding  
> whether we're pawns or queens. Many of us who have decided are quite  
> visibly mistaken as far as our fellow players are concerned.
>


Barks like a duck Maru.


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