KMC Forums - How the Scientific Method could be used to define the True Religion

Religious faith is based on scientific theories. A single unproven theory can incite many more, each as credible in their own right, i.e.; God. Even the simplest suspicions are theories, and all theories are scientific.

All theories can be treated like many treat the theories produced by their religions, but on the agnostic level, in concordance with the scientific method. It isn�t until that theory is validated through experimental reputability and by enough hard evidence that it can be treated as a theism... without making an irrefutable statement to boot. Objective theistic fact is imperative as a new wave a reason. Religion at its core is a moral doctrine, scientific discoveries can have moral implications on an individualistic level.

The Simulation Assertion is part of a religion designed to accommodate our understanding of nature. Therefore, there are no issues with creationism or metaphysics, so it doesn't necessarily require unsupported evidence or faith. It is designed specifically so that it can be demonstrated through the scientific method. Nothing in science is irrefutable, so we have to be careful what we put our faiths in, because the scientific method is a tool to understand nature as it is, without credulity or bias.

The Simulation Assertion acknowledges the the simulation hypothesis, and calls into question the motives of the simulators. Basing them off of humans, as they�d most likely be the descendants of a human-like species (descended from a species housing a society comparable to that of modern man); we always seek knowledge, and the most reliable way to acquire knowledge in its most accurate form is the scientific method. In the future would we not do everything in our increased scientific capacity to advance our understanding of nature? A perfect computer-model of the universe, designed from the subatomic level up, would have virtually unlimited scientific implications. Every possible variable in virtual reality can be altered during any given experiment, and, additionally; there�s no upper limit to what scientific theory this simulation could be used to test. Time is non-linear in a simulated reality, as everything can be rewound, fast-forwarded, slowed, paused, etc - the universe in all of its former (relative to the future�s respected timeline in which the computer-simulation was created) cosmological states could be tested.

That is the most viable explanation for why a post-modern civilization would create a computer-simulated reality. So the main conclusion is that the universe that we experience is merely the simulation of a universe with the same fundamental physics, and we all are its simulants.

Another conclusion is that the simulators sympathize with the simulant test subjects in their experiments upon the virtual world. This gives a scientifically quantifiable explanation to life-altering miracles, divination, accreditation of personal success to a higher power, prescient dreams, proclamations of divine intervention or providence, or the chronicled miracles and wonders depicted by religious documents from all over the world all throughout human history. All of this could very well be the result of past attempts to improve the quality of our simulated, but very real, lives.

An educationally certified group of individuals are already attempting to place this simulation theory under the microscope of the scientific method.

Suffering is first experienced through three out of the four basic emotions known as joy, sorrow, anger, and fear. Think about it, if the majority of our emotions are negative, than suffering must yield some advantage in a primal survival setting. Suffering is completely natural to all creatures and it is entirely due to the environment from which we evolved.

Bio-electric signals from your nerves pass through your somato-sensory gland, before entering the prefrontal cortex - that�s where abstract reasoning is done - every experience comes with one emotional undertone or another. The yin and yang, this illusion of good and evil, is created by us and us alone. In this way, there�s a limit to how much pleasure a mind can experience before hormones balance out effectively replacing the euphoria you had a minute ago with equal misery, you sore too high and get burned like Icarus. Which is a hangover, it�s having been dependent on weed, crack, or some other drug to function for too long and then going without it, it�s hypoglycemia, it�s what happens when the coffee wears out, it�s what happens when you lose interest in something.

�The Buddhist teachings say that the more people free themselves from desire, ill will and ignorance, the greater their happiness is - no matter what is going on around them. When they have completely removed desire, ill will and ignorance the Buddha says they will experience the same supreme happiness he discovered."

Buddha�s methods were pseudo-scientific. Advances in technological and scientific sophistication, however, hypothesizes that there is, in fact, a way to remove ourselves from the environment that predisposes us to suffering. New horizons have been built upon all human progress through technology and science and innovation and through the betterment of society.

When Buddha was alive, there was no knowledge of artificial intelligence. Mind-uploading is not a viable method because it doesn't change you, it merely creates a cyber-spatial version of you, an entity that is separate from the human mind that it copied off of. Surgically replacing a neuron with a smaller, artificial neuron, will make your mind more cyberspatial without breaking your conscious stream of continuity. Now that would be a viable method.

Nanotechnology might be able to replace most of the organs in the human body, but we don�t have neuron-sized mechanical structures yet. And even if we did, neurons communicate through chemical reactions in the human brain, whereas electronics don�t.

This type of nano-electronic system would be completely different from anything in today�s world, so much so that there�s no way of telling what it�d be able to do. So let�s just speculate on the possibilities.

Although the mind would have to be the last organ to be cybertized, this 'apotheosized' cyborg that you've become will no longer need any organs at all because the conscious mind you possess, the thoughts and feelings that you experience, your very existence is linked into everything on earth, all the technology all at once.

VR would feel just as real as reality. In fact, you will be able to feel or experience more than a human can physiologically feel or experience. Imagine, within a fraction of a moment, a thousand perfect human lifetimes filled with everything a human could ever experience, and only one basic emotion, joy. No fear, no anger, no sorrow, and no pain.

A mind in cyberspace thinks in hyper-time, potentially it has unlimited memory and knowledge. New information is an automatic update. No more research, no more questions, all knowledge, literature, and scientific fact on the planet is intuitive, already filed neatly in your memory-banks and ready to pulled out for use, essays and musical symphonies could be compiled flawlessly within the span of a microsecond.

As cyborgs space travel would become far more feasible, we can survive for the hundreds of thousands of years it would take to travel to another solar system, and we wouldn't need a world that can sustain life either. Any planet with a suitable surface will do. Even if we outlive our sun, our robotic civilization could continue.

My birthday, April 19th 1993, gives me the most powerful Zodiac in Astrology. The Legacy of the Magi also places Jesus in the cusp of power.

04/19/1993 AD
04/17/147 AuC
09/11/1996

9+11+1996 or 4+19+1993 = 2016
4+17+747 = 768 [click on this, then after the page has been redirected hit control f, type 768, and press enter]
2016/8 = 252
768/8 = 96
252 x 96 = 24192
24192/8 = 3024
2016 - 768 = 1248
3024 - 1248 = 1776
1776/2 = 888

Why are the numbers found in this formula so recurrent and interrelated? I assert the existence an underlying pattern within it. It seems that this formula and these dates serve as a message designed to imply the significance of what the Legacy of The Magi asserts, along with the Biblical significance of America's role in bringing forth Armageddon.

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"Compounding these trickster aspects, the Joker ethos is verbally explicated as such by his psychiatrist, who describes his madness as "super-sanity." Where "sanity" previously suggested acquiescence with cultural codes, the addition of "super" implies that this common "sanity" has been replaced by a superior form, in which perception and processing are completely ungoverned and unconstrained"