-Removed-Actually it is a reference to an episode from Kung Fu the tv show.
According to the Chinese philosophical classic Zhuangzi, the great Daoist thinker of that name fell asleep one day and dreamed that he was a butterfly. When he woke up, he did not know whether he really was a man who had dreamed he was a butterfly or whether he was a butterfly now dreaming he was a man.
philosophynow.org/issues/76/Zhuangzi_And_That_Bloody_Butterfly
Originally posted by @secondsonIn the future sir it will be possible to download our consciousness and live forever on a floppy disc.
Then we would be dead.
Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-dukeIn the infinite realm of cyberspace as magnetic bytes traveling at the speed of light...
In the future sir it will be possible to download our consciousness and live forever on a floppy disc.
...as apposed to spiritual bodies capable of traveling at the speed of thought between the material universe and the spiritual dimensions heretofore unknown.
😉
Sounds like Last Thursdayism. The idea that the universe was created last Thursday, but with the physical appearance of being billions of years old. It's also a counter to the creationism theory. Under Last Thursdayism, books, fossils, light already on the way from distant stars, and literally everything (including your memories of the time before last Thursday) were all formed at the time of creation (last Thursday) in a state such that they appear much older.
Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-dukeWhy do you think I would answer you? There that's the closest thing to an answer you will get.
Do you consider yourself an open-minded person?
Originally posted by @pianoman1It could be true but could be false. Your beliefs about it reveal the unproven beliefs that govern your decision making.
Sounds like Last Thursdayism. The idea that the universe was created last Thursday, but with the physical appearance of being billions of years old. It's also a counter to the creationism theory. Under Last Thursdayism, books, fossils, light already on the way from distant stars, and literally everything (including your memories of the time before last Th ...[text shortened]... all formed at the time of creation (last Thursday) in a state such that they appear much older.
Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-dukeLol. You are a waste of time so I am closed minded. Gotcha
Yes, about what I expected from someone with a closed mind.