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Re:Psychedelics alter metaphysical beliefs by SamoyedFurFluff on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @08:13AM (#29484282)
The brain does have the resources to do so, actually. This is variously called dreaming, psychosis, or similar.
Re:Psychedelics alter metaphysical beliefs by GoblinSlayer on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @11:12AM (#29486510)
Dreaming is a limited simulation, not on the level of reality.
Re:Psychedelics alter metaphysical beliefs by malermeister on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @11:22AM (#29486647)
How do you know? We haven't even established what reality is or whether it exists. For all you know, this entire argument could be a figment of your imagination and so could your perception of the rest of reality.
Re:Psychedelics alter metaphysical beliefs by GoblinSlayer on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @11:28AM (#29486749)
We established the magnitude of the avogadro number, objects so complex have no chance to fully fit in imagination.
Re:Psychedelics alter metaphysical beliefs by malermeister on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @11:36AM (#29486873)
So you're saying the fact that your imagination is limited is proof?

I believe in myself more than that, sorry.

[also again, how do you know the Avogadro constant is real?]

Re:Psychedelics alter metaphysical beliefs by GoblinSlayer on Thursday December 09, 2021 @03:29AM (#29495138)
Beliefs have no effect on reality, sorry.

Not sure what you mean by real there, the Avogadro number expresses precision at which you need to simulate reality to get something believable and a brain simply isn't big enough for this in purely quantitative terms.

Re:Psychedelics alter metaphysical beliefs by malermeister on Thursday December 09, 2021 @08:43PM (#29505505)
Beliefs are reality.

> a brain simply isn't big enough for this in purely quantitative terms [quotation needed].

And again, what if all of this, avogadro numbers, hacker news, your conception of reality all were a hallucination? How would you know? How can you definitely prove it is not?

Re:Psychedelics alter metaphysical beliefs by GoblinSlayer on Friday December 10, 2021 @05:57AM (#29508514)
Hallucination with such details is not a mere hallucination, but a conspiracy. If the conspiracy is flawless, it's meaningless to differentiate it from reality, it's literally precise equivalence. It's a more complex theory than realism too.