Saturday, April 25, 2009

The Nature Of Reality (TNOR)

What is, The+Nature+Of+Reality? (TNOR) Is this world part of a cosmic MATRIX? 
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Reality , http://fusionanomaly.net/realities.html
This can be a personal quest as well as a general human cultural quest.
http://fusionanomaly.net/matrix.html , http://fusionanomaly.net/virtualreality.html
There are many questions and there are several answers about TNOR.
http://fusionanomaly.net/holographicuniverse.html , http://fusionanomaly.net/neuromancer.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(Doctor_Who) Since 1976.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deadly_Assassin#Plot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreams_for_Sale 1985
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sentence_(The_Outer_Limits)#Plot 1996

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk#History_and_origins ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirrorshades 1986
http://fusionanomaly.net/cyberpunk.html , http://fusionanomaly.net/memory.html ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk#Film_and_television ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Maddox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Mnemonic_(1995_film) ,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHFOxciYklI
No_Maps_for_These_Territories 2000
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Maps_for_These_Territories#Background_and_premise
There have been some interesting intersections between William Gibson and U2 over the years.
https://www.atu2.com/news/connections/gibson

The William Gibson MATRIX certainly added to the concept of Big Data and Data-streams...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gibson#Visionary_influence_and_prescience
"a.k.a. the matrix
A term coined by author William Gibson in his novel Neuromancer, it refers to a vast computer network or growing mass of interconnected networks." https://www.netlingo.com/word/matrix.php , 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer#Background

Of course by the early 1990s, U2 would end up doing their own version of the Cyberpunk music and entertainment theme and stream.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_TV_Tour 1992-1993
ZOO Station: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQbrNVAMTLQ
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/Bono_as_The_Fly_Cleveland_1992.jpg
Even Better Than The Real Thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf5BWzQ2nHo
The U2 MATRIX on tour. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achtung_Baby#Zoo_TV_Tour ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_TV:_Live_from_Sydney 1993
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0x_R2cv1o8
So of course The MATRIX has to be filmed in Sydney.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix#Filming
The_Matrix_Poster 1999 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix#Plot
So in the early 1990s, Bono was flying around The ZOO TV MATRIX before people saw Neo doing his Superman thing in The MATRIX.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuM6ZwGunlE
{"Agent Smith: "Can you hear me, Morpheus? I'm going to be honest with you. I hate this place, this ZOO, this prison, this reality, whatever you want to call it...."}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYL28a0LM_A
Digital_rain_animation_medium_letters_shine.gif ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_digital_rain#Background ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_(franchise)#The_Ultimate_Matrix_Collection
The_Thirteenth_Floor_poster from 1999. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirteenth_Floor#Plot
Obviously The_Matrix_(franchise) was intended to be on a much larger scale than The 13th Floor. However, The 13th Floor is just as fascinating in exploring TNOR.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_13th_Floor_Elevators 1965-1969
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You're_Gonna_Miss_Me In another context, this song could have been a warning about people opting out of their reality and going into Virtual Reality. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIVpHNEPzDM , 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Psychedelic_Sounds_of_the_13th_Floor_Elevators
"Slip Inside This House" by 13th Floor Elevators, as performed on the "Easter Everywhere" album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwSA0Tckwbk ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_13th_Floor_Elevators#The_first_two_albums
Question TNOR, indeed.

http://fusionanomaly.net/elevators.html
The Thirteenth_floor is a level that exists and yet doesn't exist in many buildings. It can be a mechanical floor or a service and storage floor or sometimes it's skipped or omitted. That just means it's not officially in the building floor count, but its still there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_reality_in_fiction#Literature ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_reality_in_fiction#Film ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_reality_in_fiction#Television

SF stories can help people to imagine and visualize various aspects of reality and alternate realities.
http://fusionanomaly.net/sciencefiction.html

http://fusionanomaly.net/arthurcclarke.html , http://fusionanomaly.net/quantummechanics.html

Themes of Reality, Divinity and Humanity in the Short Stories of Philip K. Dick (PKD)
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ousfg/misc/pkd.html , http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ousfg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick#Films , http://fusionanomaly.net/bladerunner.html
wikipedia/en/4/49/Blade_Runner_spinner_flyby.png

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick#Quotes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cosmic_Puppets (1956/1957)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Satellite_science_fiction_195612.jpg ,
http://fusionanomaly.net/dimensions.html , http://fusionanomaly.net/metaphysics.html
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/NASA_child_bubble_exploration.jpg ,

http://fusionanomaly.net/imagination.html , http://fusionanomaly.net/100thmonkey.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_in_the_Sky_(1957_novel)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Collage_Auge_im_Himmel_byL%C3%B6ser.jpg ,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VALIS_trilogy , http://fusionanomaly.net/valis.html ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VALIS#Philosophical_and_cultural_references

http://fusionanomaly.net/williamgibson.html , http://fusionanomaly.net/stanleykubrick.html

http://fusionanomaly.net/davidlynch.html

http://fusionanomaly.net/terencemckenna.html , http://fusionanomaly.net/robertantonwilson.html

http://fusionanomaly.net/culturejamming.html , http://fusionanomaly.net/holograms.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_TV_Tour#Conception
ZOO TV was all about big time entertainment and emerging digital technology on the horizon. However from another perspective, what if this world is part of someones zoo?

"The zoo hypothesis speculates as to the assumed behavior and existence of technically advanced extraterrestrial life and the reasons they refrain from contacting Earth and is one of many theoretical explanations for the Fermi paradox. The hypothesis is that alien life intentionally avoids communication with Earth, and one of its main interpretations is that it does so to allow for natural evolution and sociocultural development, avoiding interplanetary contamination, similarly to people observing animals at a zoo. The hypothesis seeks to explain the apparent absence of extraterrestrial life despite its generally accepted plausibility and hence the reasonable expectation of its existence.[1]
Aliens might, for example, choose to allow contact once the human species has passed certain technological, political, or ethical standards. They might withhold contact until humans force contact upon them, possibly by sending a spacecraft to planets they inhabit. Alternatively, a reluctance to initiate contact could reflect a sensible desire to minimize risk. An alien society with advanced remote-sensing technologies may conclude that direct contact with neighbors confers added risks to oneself without an added benefit." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_hypothesis 

In this movie the humans don't realize that they are on some ET laboratory ship. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_City_(1998_film)#Plot ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_hypothesis#Appearance_in_fiction

http://fusionanomaly.net/alien.html ,
http://fusionanomaly.net/vortex.html , http://fusionanomaly.net/nodes.html


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