Can Science Unlock the Secrets of Our Creator's Code?

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The discussion explores the nature of perception and reality, questioning the reliability of human senses and suggesting that what we perceive may not truly exist outside our minds. It posits that our sensory experiences could be mere electrical impulses interpreted by our brains, leading to the idea that reality might be akin to a computer program. The conversation touches on the implications of scientific advancements in understanding the universe, suggesting that as we decode the "program" of existence, we may approach the level of our creator, if one exists. A significant point raised is the challenge of contacting this creator through unconventional means, raising philosophical questions about belief without evidence. The analogy of an invisible dragon illustrates the difficulty of proving or disproving untestable claims, emphasizing the importance of skepticism and the need for evidence in validating beliefs. Overall, the thread delves into deep philosophical inquiries about existence, perception, and the nature of belief.
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I’ve been reading threads on here about what is physical and matter and such like that, also about a possible creator be it god or some alien being of some sort. So this thread is sort of a mixture…not to mention a bit matrix-ee. I’ve been thinking about how unreliable our senses are. Seeing how our senses tell us what we are perceiving…the truth maybe is there may be nothing to perceive…everything we “see” is just an electrical impulse sent from our receivers(eyes, ears, nose, mouth, skin) to our brain. We, other than our senses have no idea if what we perceive is actually there or not .All our senses could be tricked into “receiving” these messages from where we perceive to perceive them from. In any event even our senses could be fake.

The whole illusion of light bouncing off stuff to get to our eyes might be no more than a fancy computer program. Light bounces off “things” and hits our eyes and our eyes turn the photon image into an electrical signal. The electrical signal is then transmitted to the back of the brain where we “see”. If you could hook a computer up to the brain and transmit an image you will still see that image even though your eyes are closed (you don’t even need a computer…a dream will do). In essence the room you think you are in…is actually in you. So…..

Someone said on here one day that a creation can only be as advanced as its creator. The very fact that science is finding out more and more each day how the world works could mean we are on our way to finding out how this particular creation works. Thus becoming as advanced as our creator. We’re basically finding out what the code is he wrote the program with. ie: all those math equations you guys have could be the code this program operates buy…after we have all figured out what rules there are all we have to do then is to figure out who/why/where the rules came from. The problem that might come up and I think it’s coming up now days with genetic engineering and the like, is the day we figure out how to re-write the code.

So I ask, once we do all the tests and figure out the rules how would we (Ideas Far fetched or not) go about (assuming there is a creator) contacting it/them? With non normal means…kind of like a natural supernatural way of bridging the gap.
 
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Now, what’s the difference between an invisible, incorporeal, floating dragon who spits heatless fire and no dragon at all? If there’s no way to disprove my contention, no conceivable experiment that would count against it, what does it mean to say that my dragon exists? Your inability to invalidate my hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true. Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless, whatever value they may have in inspiring us or in exciting our sense of wonder. What I’m asking you to do comes down to believing, in the absence of evidence, on my say-so. The only thing you’ve really learned from my insistence that there’s a dragon in my garage is that something funny is going on inside my head. You’d wonder, if no physical tests apply, what convinced me. The possibility that it was a dream or a hallucination would certainly enter your mind. But then, why am I taking it so seriously? Maybe I need help. At the least, maybe I’ve seriously underestimated human fallibility. Imagine that, despite none of the tests being successful, you wish to be scrupulously open-minded. So you don’t outright reject the notion that there’s a fire-breathing dragon in my garage. You merely put it on hold. Present evidence is strongly against it, but if a new body of data emerge you’re prepared to examine it and see if it convinces you. Surely it’s unfair of me to be offended at not being believed; or to criticize you for being stodgy and unimaginative — merely because you rendered the Scottish verdict of “not proved.”

Just because there are small insecurities does not make all eventualities equally probable.
 
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I must say that's a good response...and of course dragons are cool too ;)
 
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