Are we living in the Matrix?

[XL xQgg?QcQCaTYDMjqoDnYpG]

My argument [is that] human cognition is not the ultimate measure of reality​

Because we cannot step outside our own brains, we can never truly access or comprehend this realm.

perception doesn't connect us to the world; it simplifies the world into a survival-friendly caricature.

We aren't looking through a window; we are looking at a screen

You might feel like you are getting closer to the "truth" of the computer, but you are still looking at pixels on a screen. You aren't seeing the flow of electrons through transistors or the literal silicon.

A user interface is not designed to give you "access" to the underlying system. It is explicitly designed to hide the underlying system.

The UI translates reality into an arbitrary, fabricated language (pixels and icons)

most of us do not experience "reality as it actually is

what we perceive a mere interpretation that can be easily distorted or entirely disconnected from objective truth.

they are perceiving a synthetic, manufactured illusion.

Kant argued that we can only ever experience the world as it appears to us through the filter of our human faculties (Phenomena). We have zero access to the world as it actually is

Do you really think humans have access to reality exactly as it is? I don’t.

the idea that we can access ultimate reality itself seems even more doubtful.

To know you are trapped in a system

we only ever experience a mediated version of the world

I can excuse you being a dense motherfucker, but I cannot excuse you being a disingenuous one.

 

[The Lawgiver]

Personally I think if we were in a simulation I should have some cooler shit to do than the boring monotonous shit of the last decade.


Pomni

You need to escape the digital circus
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[Smart Turtle]

I can excuse you being a dense motherfucker, but I cannot excuse you being a disingenuous one.

You are simply stupid, You're really underestimating your cognitive abilities. They're essentially the same in meaning. To effectively challenge Kant, Plato, me, you need to do better than this.

 

[XL xQgg?QcQCaTYDMjqoDnYpG]

You are simply stupid

I agree that my behavior was stupid, I kept giving you the benefit of the doubt even though you could not track a single hinge question across multiple replies, kept substituting different claims mid-argument, and just rage quit into youtube links.
That's on me.

 

[Smart Turtle]

I agree that my behavior was stupid, I kept giving you the benefit of the doubt even though you could not track a single hinge question across multiple replies, kept substituting different claims mid-argument, and just rage quit into youtube links.
That's on me.

You didn't even have time to open the video. Instead of wasting time on pointless arguments, you should think and observe more. What you are doing won't work