Mad Hatter dons his semantics cap...
Now at the risk of incurring the wrath of one of his favourite posters -
Posted by Carmody
(here)
Nothing would be the same.
I would humbly argue that post such an exercise it would not so much be a case of things having changed in fact they would be exactly the same as they always were, BUT, it would be your 'perception' of things that is inexorably and permanently altered and it is in that realisation one may glimpse a straw to hang onto to help balance out or anchor that new perception assuming one has the mental wherewithal, preparation and strength to grasp it as a reference point.
I do however understand the inference being made, the implications of which seem to indicate that those even vaguely capable of undertaking such a path would be well less than 1% of the entire population and of those not all will be adequately prepared.
This of course raises questions of the lateral kind (at least in my mind)...
If one subscribes to the idea that we are driving, albeit minus the manual, reality generating machines as well as the concept of their being a, shall we say, common consciousness then what are the implications of more people undertaking such an exercise so far as the manifestation of that common consciousness is concerned and the impacts that may have?
I'd best leave it a that for now as my brain is starting to hurt...lol
PS On another matter completely... earlier in the thread a paper was put up relating to states of matter (500 or so) which I found fascinating. I then ran into this -
[QUOTE]First of all, you wouldn't open up their hardware to find a CPU here, and a data bus there, and some kind of memory over there. Their hardware appeared to be perfectly solid and consistent in terms of material from one side to the other. Like a rock or a hunk of metal. But upon [much] closer inspection, we began to learn that it was actually one big holographic computational substrate - each "computational element" (essentially individual particles) can function independently, but are designed to function together in tremendously large clusters. I say its holographic because you can divide it up into the smallest chunks you want and still find a scaled-down but complete representation of the whole system.