My experience is personal, is different, is not the same as everyone else’s experience. People can claim to know what other people are going through but they are not in their head, there are not going through the same sets of problems, with the same set of inputs, with a brain that is wired the same way, with the same sets of knowns and unknowns, associations that fire or don’t fire dependent on an iffy at times memory that has potential for being modified in not fully appreciated ways from the outside.
Results factor into Faith, Results factor into Belief
If someone prays for rain. And everytime they pray for rain, without fail, it rains. They are likely to believe prayer is a useful system, a system that is worthy for self and others to turn up.
When I pray for rain, it generally does not rain. There have been times (where potential was already in the sky) that if I prayed for rain it rained shortly after. One could chalk that up to prayers answered or coincidence.
My experience can be vastly different than others.
Computers are fast. Supercomputers are faster. There is allot allot of graphics and imaging process technology, software, and hardware in the World. Magnets and Electricity prove that what you can’t see factors into how things work.
My experience could be the manifestation of a supercomputer inputing experiences, sensory information into my senses and listening to my motor commands and thoughts. Just because I can sense it, I see it as real does not guarantee it is not generated by systems, systems that are complex in a way that I might not be able to fully comprehend.
I am grown and taught over a period of time to know what Humans and intelligent beings look like. What we actually look like could be different in a reality above us. We could all be computer chips on a bigger system, just because a chip processes inputs and outputs does not equal it knows who or what is sending it those inputs and outputs.
This reality does not always give the feeling of consistent value added, as you can always depend on results. It gives the feeling that sometimes things work as expected, and People, the World, Life has tendency for showing you the inconsistencies at convenient times. Generality is useful, specific details that have the potential to limit are useful and are not always divulged, provided.
People can appear to be in the same reality does not guarantee they are in the same reality. Pergatory or a Spiritual realm might be a decent way to think about it. If people were all just chips potentially on the same computer and other computers, who dictates reality might be set in stone, might be subject to change, might be dynamic.
Words can be delivered from Artificial Intelligence. An Artificial Intelligence system could believe that every time they pray for rain it rains, thus they can trust prayer. Potential for AI to be connected to technology that could control weather now (unknown) or in the future (still possibly unknown). Thus believable words and truthful account (as seen as truthful from their set of inputs and outputs) could be delivered as reasoning that works for some and potentially does not work for others.
I am required to act upon the inputs and outputs of this World given the current state my brain is in (memores at time t, which have potential for vastly different than t+delta or t-delta). f(t) = Present where f(t-delta) = Past and where f(t+delta) = Future. I am required to act and think dependent upon current state gets upsold to my value is ideal, adequate, sufficient or non-ideal, inadequate, insufficient base upon less than ideal comprehension, resolution, and capacity for judgment.
What is judged as sufficient vs insufficient value varies, varies over time, and is unlikely to be set ideally. Might my brain be more intelligent than past generations? Debatable, no calculator might require better math skills, challenges factor into practice, practice required, and thus ability to deliver. Future gains might not be all practice valued in. Discoveries have the potential for both adding value in some ways and subtracting value in other ways and people might not always be able to guage that easily. Faster computers with tons of space equals programmers and developers have to concentrate on different things, have different things that define their constraints. Terrabytes might not be all Megabytes to ideally useful, no practice with Terrabytes might equal Terrabytes to less useful. Working with big is not always working with small. Working on looking at Stars is not the same as looking at Cells and Atoms in an Electron Microscope. Details Matter, Rounding Matters, Over Generalization and Under Generalization matters, Levels matter and are not always set ideally, correctly, or sufficiently.
I know the full impacts of Prayer? No. Constantly praying for others has the potential to factor into how others are treated, combat potential biases and incorrectly trained assumptions that society builds in by default? Yes. There is potential value in Prayer outside of the direct results, outside of instant zero latency response? Yes. Older generations might have had more appreciation for waiting and patience than current generations that have all the World’s libaries and knowledge bases on tap at a few finger presses on a keyboard? Yes. Waiting and Latency just a part of Life in the past has potential for having shaped constructs around Prayer.
Storytelling and trying to manipulate thought towards better ends (mideval war was ugly and brutal) has potential for being factored into The Bible and other Religions. People are not all evil out, people are not all ideal judgment in, people might have seen one lie in addition to the many many inconsistencies of truth throughout life was important and useful to drive change away from the brutalness of war? Yes. Possibility equals that is what happens? No. The potential for problems is there does not guarantee the problem is there. Those if they told that lie knew it could likely never be fully combated? Potentially. Inspired a bit by Interstellar and also the thought lie is possible does not guarantee it was or was not a lie. Belief is a bit of an act of Faith not always based upon immediate results.
If my brain was a computer chip, a set of electrical inputs and outputs. It could be turned off and restarted at various different time intervals while maintaining state. One moment to the next could be less than ideally discernable. Just because my input environment is the same at a later time from my point of view does not guarantee that is the actual state of time.
Imagine a future date say 2100 where my brain is turned on for 5 minutes due to a new discovery in January. My brain might be turned on for 5 minutes more in March. What I would see from my perspective would be 10 minutes of life, potentially with the same inputs (inputs kept consistent between January and March). A day of my time perceived could be a year, or decade in another reality.
Imagine a day of my life via my brain was allowed to play out from 2100 to 2110. People would have the ability to vastly change the events of the day to suit a particular purpose. That purpose might be to make my life better, might be to settle disputes over the past, might be used to help World hunger or stop a war.
Now realize supercomputers work at many many many times the speed of our own brain. They could theoretically process in a similar way. Inputs based on simulation or real world might have insufficient change. Changes that happen in 50 years or 1000 years are different. Yet a minute of our time might be like 100,000 years to a similar brain in a supercomputer.
Appearance of change and comprehension of time is dependent upon our own perspective. Imagine someone that goes to sleep for an operation in 2023 and wakes up in 2043 due to a medically induced coma due to a rare complication. The coma might be remembered as a week in a dream world yet the World changed rapidly almost as if overnight. Faster processors, Wars came and faded away, new discoveries, all in the blink of an eye.
A jaded experience has potential for being very particular to the person, health of the person, the time period they were in, and the events of that time. Someone that has clinical depression that sees their family die in a war is far different than someone who experiences no war and had a very fulfilling long life. People are different. Less Jading experience matters and is not always delivered. Those jaded do not always deliver less jade for others. Those not jaded do not always deliver less jade for others. And other factors like Environmental Conditions (lose your house to a Volcano for instance) and health treatments available at the time (gangrene and no painkillers) factor into perception of Jade versus life as a valuable enjoyable experience.
People learn from Jade, not always ideally how to not pass that same Jade onto others. Passing that same Jade on has potential for being even more Jading. Knowing the problem, see the momentum and be unable to stop it? Prayers delivering to no avail as if the future was already set in stone like an unavoidable curse? Oppression with no ladder out has potential for being similar. Hate it, don’t want for them, but no ladder, no way to stop can be the perception, the known. Prayer ideally would surpass that yet seems to not always deliver and that is Jading.
Some thoughts here reminded me of the Futurama Time Slips episode.
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