Simulation Hypothesis

“Will there be an afterlife, I wonder? Choirs of angels? Or a fiery pit? One unlearns these falsehoods over time, but the child who learnt to fear hell is never really gone. To tell the truth, I think I had enough of afterlives as it is – this one has been...

Merger-5

“What am I in the eyes of most people – a non-entity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person – somebody, who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then – even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like...

Merger-4

“To me, it seems that those sciences are vain and full of errors which are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, first-hand experience which in its origins, or means, or end has passed through one of the five senses. And if we doubt the certainty of...

Merger-3

“First Law: When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.Second Law: The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to...

Merger-2

“All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.” — Leonardo da Vinci Cerebral Process The conceptual models derived from Merger-1 are implemented in the first cognitive simulation experiment as thought-simulation 1 (see below). Thought-simulation 1: Overview...

Merger-1

“For there exists a great chasm between those, on the one side, who relate everything to a single central vision, one system more or less coherent or articulate, in terms of which they understand, think and feel – a single, universal, organizing principle, in. terms...