Are there different levels of reality? alternate dimensions?
In one of those realities I have 3 bisexual wives, a blonde, a brunette and a redhead.
There's a multi-verse theory in quantum mechanics. It's still just a theory, but it purports that there is possibly an infinite number of universes in which every single possible outcome has occurred or will occur. If that's true then I think it also puts a squash on the theory of us having free will.
There is no solid proof yet though.
As far as there being different realities? Our existence is based on our perception. What's real for someone might not be real for someone else. Schizophrenics are an extreme, but good example of this. When they have episodes, sometimes they hallucinate and can't tell what's "real" or not. But if you perceive something to be real and can swear it's there, then it's real to you. People with Alzheimers is another good example.
Our brains are receivers and they project what we see. It just depends what frequency we're on. I suppose there is a general frequency that we're all on, and then frequencies in between those frequencies that differentiate all of us. None of us have seemed to be able to expand past that general base frequency yet.
Wow, that was some good stuff! Im kinda new here and that was great man!!
@Jmiles I've always been fascinated with quantum mechanics. The scientists obviously explain it all better, and more accurately.
I think therefore I am. Descartes most haunting conclusion for anyone that has given it enough thought. The reality you experience can never be universally conclusive.
Take people with synesthesia for example, I have a friend that went most of her life not knowing that not everyone sees colors corresponding to certain sounds.
The only thing that you can ever be certain of is that you exist, even if it's as a brain in a jar...
As for alternate dimensions, no one has created any passage to one in a lab or their basement, so if they're out there they may be inaccessible and if that's true then they might as well not exist at all from our perspective.
There are many different galaxies... so I do believe there could be different dimensions. And like another commenter said.. the ant's perspective is different from ours.
This is an ontological question, a question about "what is".
My personal attitude towards ontological questions is that only that exists of which a significant number of intelligent people can agree that at least one but better several of the following conditions are fulfilled:
I do not even know what "different levels of reality" could actually mean, so I will pass on that one. However, "alternate dimensions" can have a scientific meaning, maybe one that is different from what your intended meaning is. But several physical theories postulate the existence of alternate or better additional dimensions because their existence would allow for better or "simpler" theories about some of the fundamental physical laws. However, so far, there is not enough scientific evidence for them, in other words, we cannot really claim that any of the above points 1-5 are fulfilled strong enough so that we can all agree that it would be a better way to describe or think about reality.
It's the only reality that I know.
It's the only reality which has any effect on my life.
So, personally, I don't care if there are or not.
Matrix ideas are interesting but I find to be of little value - I leave that to philosophy students!
in the field of theoretical physics. There are, so far, 11 different dimensions. One of which is called the M field also known as the matrix.
Yep - who cares?
Yeah, but many here would ignore such evidence. Can you accept the Mandela Effect is real?
I am not sure what the relevance of the Mandela effect is here. In my opinon, the Mandela effect can probably easily explained when looking and understanding the way how the human brain works as a learning system.
For example: in English, certain word combinations are much more likely than others. Computational learning theory sees learning (speaking very roughly) as a process that tries to model conditional probabilities through a kind of compression (in order to achieve generalisation). So memory is not really like a computer hard disk: it is a form of reconstruction from compressed data that was compressed according to the probability distributions observed in the past. So it is not at all surprising that many people will "remember" the much more likely "Sex in the city" instead of "Sex and the city" simply because the sequence "in the city" is much more likely than "and the city". The same is true for apes having a tail, double words like kit-kat having a hyhen or other examples of that effect.
@josmi6699 The Memory Code
by Lynne Kelly
Don't throw your memories under the bus.