Reality is an Illusion.

[ZaRNiaN]

Hey guys just wanted to share some interesting videos with you all. I think a lot on this subject. So I would like to know what do you think about it.

Holographic Universe: Its all illusion - Part 1/2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oocyxI8MH-c&feature=related

Holographic Universe: Its all illusion - Part 2/2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG9FO7JGWq4&feature=related

The Reality As You Know It Does Not Exist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZj9Qps8H6M&feature=related

[trailerman]

Reality depends only on how we look at it, because it's reality.
No matter how 'fakish' from a side your reality can look, it's still your reality, and keep it if you feel good inside it.

[Jinju]

Everything that ever exists is the result of the interaction between subatomic particles. Everything. This includes organic matter, the illusion we perceive to be life, and even conscious thought. "Life" on Earth is actually just complex systems of particle interaction that have developed through the course of billions of years. Look at your hand right now and tell me where the animate ends and the inanimate begins. That line between the living and non-living is ambiguous, and ultimately it is a distinction that we have created with the tool of thought. The illusion of thought is an advanced process that resulted from the aforementioned particle interaction. Let me explain through the example of artificial intelligence, or robots.
Given that both thought and life are (self-engineered) illusions, there is really nothing impairing the creation of non-organic "life," besides our own species' ingenuity, meaning that a robot's emulation of life is really no different than a human's life at all. Both are the interaction of complex systems of particles and energy. This raises a new question.
If we technically have the potential to create "life," does that make us divine beings? No, quite the contrary. It simply means that we have the trivial ability to apply our own illusion of life to the complex systems (robots) that we create. Moreover, the laws of physics still apply to and literally dictate our lives. Nothing divine about that, because life is simply a label we apply to complex and functional systems of interacting matter. Realistically, all matter is constantly interacting with itself, whether we label it as "alive" or not. If you don't believe me, then what are you looking at right now?

[Kaite87]

this reminds me of the guy who found scientific proof of God.

http://webspace.webring.com/people/eg/george_hammond/

George Hammond claims he found the proof..... I read this a long time ago never brought it up to the religion thread cause I did not see any reality to it, but since this thread addresses reality and he talks about how we see reality I thought I might have a better fit here.

[Melon Lord's Revenge]

Reality isn't the illusion...Time, now that's the real illusion. There's a great quote from a little Mike Leigh 1993 film called Naked when David Thewlis (of Harry Potter fame as Professor Remus Lupin) goes on a rant and says:
"So you think you can make the present palatable by projecting into the future? You're living in the past, pal. It's the future that f***s you up, Brian. It's the maggot in the apple. See, you're all pissed off with the present, and there's nothing wrong with the present. The present's fine. The present's perfect. The present's peachy f******g creamy. The only thing wrong with the present is that the bastard doesn't exist because the present is the future, and the future is the past f*****g bag of bones anyway. It's a constant process of coming into being and passing away."

[ZaRNiaN]

Ya Time is of course an Illusion. But have you ever thought that various animals like Dogs, Cats, Rats etc see the world in Black and White. So according to them the world is Black and White. We see it in Colours and we assume this is how the world is. But we don't realize that whatever we are seeing is just the projection of our mind and the ability of our 5 senses. It has been proven that our Universe is Holographic.
Our Brain is very complicated and we still don't know a lot of things about our brain. Everything in the Universe is Consciousness and the Source of Illusions doesn't exist outside but inside us.

[Sejame]

This is a bunch of nonsense. It basically falls under the same category as 'if a tree falls and nothing is around to hear it, does it make a sound.'

Love the music though. Can really jam to that

[Kaite87]

thats the beauty of it its all contradictory

[antisp13]

pants are also an illusion. But no, if a tree falls and no ones around to hear it, it does not make a sound. There is nothing around to accept or perceive it's sound. IMO, reality is whatever we know and we are limited to. If a person had lived in a cave all his life, that's all he would know and that would be his reality.

[Noodles]

The only way this reality is an illusion thing could work would be (1) we are all asleep and interacting in an elaborate dream or (2) we are all just a dream in someone's head. I will not say either of those are 100% false but extremely unlikely. So then I think that everyone has their own concept of reality. Each event in our lives shape our realities and no 2 realities will ever be the same.