UnbornTao

Depends on how you hold reason. But there are certainly people who are capable of being irrational. By definition, a lunatic is irrational. Otherwise, how would we bridge the gap between these two? Without that distinction - which we already make - you'd be essentially arguing for the nonexistence of irrationality.

I thought I was a banana.

Breath Work Pro Max sells better.

Cheers to comformity!

Just call it Breathing 2.0.

That just sounds like breathing with extra steps.

Seems to boil down to preference, or opinion.

Looking good! Vravo Bince.

You might ask, for example, who is doing the observing or perceiving? The question isn't pointing to some imagined entity, but to you, the very one asking it. Keep digging until you have a breakthrough. You seem to be heading in the right direction. Just keep the subject of your contemplation in mind, and whenever you get distracted, return to your most real and inmediate sense of yourself.

Yes, stories can be illuminating.

As long as it produces enlightenment...

@cetus It's a sci-fi story.

Not sure about actual shapes and sizes changing, but the sense or perception of those qualities can probably shift or be altered a bit - it's likely happened to me a few times. It seems like your mood, and where you place your attention (among other factors), can influence that sense. This might turn out to be a change in mind state, not sure. Can be fun but it's also subtle, in my view. Nothing magical or fantastical.

Thanks. Moved to the Entertainment subforum.

Absolute Shitting.

"So we were the Predators all along?"

Want to watch that one, and the Pluribus show. And at some point maybe the new Frankenstein movie.

It's a language - invented. Sorry, no elaboration.

Interpretation's a bitch.

Is there something you want to convey that might be useful to people here? What is your reason for posting this thread?

You seem to be talking about perception and its self-referential nature in relation to the presumed entity behind that act - the one we currently take ourselves to be. That's the case for pretty much everyone, except some of us like to pretend it's not, because we've picked up ideas from elsewhere that contradict our actual experience. You're being honest, so I appreciate that. As a matter of biological mechanics, this is a natural and common experience to have. Since you can only perceive your own experience, you assume you are the receiver of that process - and this particular one is a God, all‑important and central to the world, at least from your perspective. However, is it true? For instance, can you perceive the perceiver - the entity doing the perceiving? This is something to contemplate personally.

Curious about its price, too - apparently, it's on par with a mid-range PC of similar specs, not a console. The Steam Frame uses an ARM chip. Intrigued mostly by the software and the prospects of Linux gaming.

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