An alternate reality game (ARG) is an interactive networked narrative that uses the real world as a platform and employs transmedia storytelling to deliver a story that may be altered by players' ideas or actions.
The form is defined by intense player involvement with a story that takes place in real time and evolves according to players' responses. Subsequently, it is shaped by characters that are actively controlled by the game's designers, as opposed to being controlled by an AI as in a computer or console video game. Players interact directly with characters in the game, solve plot-based challenges and puzzles, and collaborate as a community to analyze the story and coordinate real-life and online activities.
Idk, this isn’t the easiest idea to express but it’s one I had recently while looking at some 100,000 entry wiki for a video game series lol. People treat Halo and Harry Potter like they’re real, if maybe just out of their reach...and I can kind of get it... so many view their “religion” as an extension of their public facade/public identity, if they even profess a religion, given how many today claim some perverse, ever shifting “identitarianism” (in the sense of using beliefs as a filter for the things you will interact with or even consider)
"Mathematics" is not numbers or arithmetic, it's the ability to virtually sort things and ideas into an organized system for understanding. That is why some of our ancestors were known as "polymaths", not because they could do a lot of math problems, but because they could hold multiple virtual realities in their mind for different domains and concepts, like the field of astronomy is a virtual reality with all that data and imagery that your mind holds, but then chemistry is another virtual reality with all that data and imagery that your mind holds, and you can switch between these virtual realities at will.
The universe, God maybe even, is like an organizing force. Look all around in nature and you will find the organization. From the way plants fractal to get adequate sun, to the hexagon shapes of a bee hive. Sacred geometry.
We can do all this in the mind, a type of virtual space. The virtual space of the mind is like the "astral plane" or an infinite plane in geometry, where we can imagine things, we can put things in our mind (virtual objects such as polygons), give them a physical arrangement, even though its all virtual and nowhere in physical reality.
This is why there was a cult behind Pythagoras, and Geometry. They had discovered that the mind is like a whole new world, and its infinite. Think Atlantis, or God's Kingdom. Your mind is the throne of God. It's the capital "G" in freemasonry. It represents virtual reality, the infinite kingdom of the mind. We now can get these virtual realities on computer screens, imagine how impressive that is.
Read Plato, he knew all about it. Pythagoras was one of his mentors.
Really insightful take, your description of polymaths is the best I’ve ever seen, “people capable of juggling multiple mental frameworks, and especially, divining here-to-fore unacknowledged links between them”.
What do you think the ur-reality is? A domain of energy without form? A thought (logos)?
I notice you sharing quite profound things in a lot of my topics, I appreciate that! Thank you
One thing I realized in school, especially with the standardized testing, was that they viewed ME as an algorithm, and were giving me these sort of turing tests to see how good I was. I intentionally botched those tests because I didn't want to be a deterministic algorithm in a Bill Gates database with sortable columns for all my different traits and ability to "compare" me to other "students". Adding bad data to their statistics, is a past time I am fond of.
I have noticed quite a few programmers like to spend their time on conspiracy forums. Always interesting to hear what they say.
Reality is being “gameified” :
Alternate Reality Game -
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_reality_game
Idk, this isn’t the easiest idea to express but it’s one I had recently while looking at some 100,000 entry wiki for a video game series lol. People treat Halo and Harry Potter like they’re real, if maybe just out of their reach...and I can kind of get it... so many view their “religion” as an extension of their public facade/public identity, if they even profess a religion, given how many today claim some perverse, ever shifting “identitarianism” (in the sense of using beliefs as a filter for the things you will interact with or even consider)
Virtual realities are how the mind works.
"Mathematics" is not numbers or arithmetic, it's the ability to virtually sort things and ideas into an organized system for understanding. That is why some of our ancestors were known as "polymaths", not because they could do a lot of math problems, but because they could hold multiple virtual realities in their mind for different domains and concepts, like the field of astronomy is a virtual reality with all that data and imagery that your mind holds, but then chemistry is another virtual reality with all that data and imagery that your mind holds, and you can switch between these virtual realities at will.
The universe, God maybe even, is like an organizing force. Look all around in nature and you will find the organization. From the way plants fractal to get adequate sun, to the hexagon shapes of a bee hive. Sacred geometry.
We can do all this in the mind, a type of virtual space. The virtual space of the mind is like the "astral plane" or an infinite plane in geometry, where we can imagine things, we can put things in our mind (virtual objects such as polygons), give them a physical arrangement, even though its all virtual and nowhere in physical reality.
This is why there was a cult behind Pythagoras, and Geometry. They had discovered that the mind is like a whole new world, and its infinite. Think Atlantis, or God's Kingdom. Your mind is the throne of God. It's the capital "G" in freemasonry. It represents virtual reality, the infinite kingdom of the mind. We now can get these virtual realities on computer screens, imagine how impressive that is.
Read Plato, he knew all about it. Pythagoras was one of his mentors.
Really insightful take, your description of polymaths is the best I’ve ever seen, “people capable of juggling multiple mental frameworks, and especially, divining here-to-fore unacknowledged links between them”.
What do you think the ur-reality is? A domain of energy without form? A thought (logos)?
I notice you sharing quite profound things in a lot of my topics, I appreciate that! Thank you
Totally agree, great comment.
One thing I realized in school, especially with the standardized testing, was that they viewed ME as an algorithm, and were giving me these sort of turing tests to see how good I was. I intentionally botched those tests because I didn't want to be a deterministic algorithm in a Bill Gates database with sortable columns for all my different traits and ability to "compare" me to other "students". Adding bad data to their statistics, is a past time I am fond of.
I have noticed quite a few programmers like to spend their time on conspiracy forums. Always interesting to hear what they say.