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Re: What is reality?

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that makes me think of the 3-4 dimention topic you made.
when i explained the fact we see in 2d and infer 3d.
our eyes actually only see in 2D. Our retina has only a 2D surface area with which it can detect light coming into our eye. What our eye sees is in fact not 3D, but a 2D projection of the 3D world we are looking at.
Because of our mind and evolved brain, we can mentally reconstruct what we see in 3d, from 2D images.
It does this by using indirect information in the 2D images like light and shade, parallax, and previous experience.

our retina doesn't actually see 3D depth, we instinctively infer it. we have a good idea of what 3D is, to the point that we are normally quite unconscious of the fact we're only seeing in 2D
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I think reality is anything that affects one or more of your 5 senses.

That is all. :p
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Earth is just a TV show for the intergalactic beings. They put all the different species from different planets all here on Earth to see how we would react to eachother...Good TV right?
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wgToonces wrote:Earth is just a TV show for the intergalactic beings. They put all the different species from different planets all here on Earth to see how we would react to eachother...Good TV right?
south park for the win.
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Aw yea! Suck my jag-on! Oooh, finger my thrusher!
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^hahahah :') I was crying laughing at that part the other day.
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what an episode....
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Glad to see this discussion finally sparked off, about time !
Computer games don't affect kids. I mean, if Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we would all be running around darkened rooms, munching magic pills, and listening to repetitive electronic music.
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lol we are such a stoner forum...

everything veers off eventually...
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WeedGuru_Flow wrote:Glad to see this discussion finally sparked off, about time !

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I like to think that our reality is a result of powers from other dimensions seeping through, gravity is such a weak force that it might leak out from a higher dimension and still have enough force to keep us together... I'm gonna be watching more weird documentaries on that tonight :p
Computer games don't affect kids. I mean, if Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we would all be running around darkened rooms, munching magic pills, and listening to repetitive electronic music.
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ive never thought of gravity being a weak force....
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me neither, abby...as it governs so much of so many species...
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It's a weak force because what we know as gravity is actually leftover energy from a higher dimension so in that sense it's a weak force.
Computer games don't affect kids. I mean, if Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we would all be running around darkened rooms, munching magic pills, and listening to repetitive electronic music.
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what is a "higher dimension"?
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