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Originally Posted by CSfilm
If reality is a dream, then we do not exist. We are figments of your imagination and could not possibly tell you anything you do not already know.
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I would disagree.
If someone is simulating my consciousness, than I exist. Even if there isn't a single particle of matter that corresponds to my body, I exist.
Hell, sometimes I catch myself simulating my own consciousness. =p~
More practically, the models in my head of other people exist. They aren't the same thing as the 'real' people, but they do exist. If all we are is a model in someone's head, then we do exist as a model in someone's head.
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Originally Posted by Augi
Once I awake from that dream, I cannot recall the same feeling that I had when in control. But, the more I try to recall that feeling in my waking life the more invigorated I feel. I could do things that I never thought physically possible of myself. When I recall that sensation I feel more alive. I don't even think drugs could do that for me.
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I have felt that feeling while awake.
In particular, I figured out how to fly while lucid dreaming. It was pretty simple.
While awake, during one of my random-thought-walks, I remembered how to fly, and it took a second of confusion for me to remember that that was dream-flying, not real-flying, that I knew how to do.
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Originally Posted by C4 Diesel
Last I had heard (a year or so ago) some scientists made a tiny little chip with like 12 electrodes and they inserted it inside a mouse's brain and could make him hungry via remote control. I thought that was pretty impressive.
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More impressive:
Vision given by brain implant
Computer control by brain implant
Hearing repair by brain implant
Flight sim controlled by rat-brain-cell neural network