A provocative review on the meaning of the dictionary in modern life.
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5/9/2015 The Dictionary Is a Scifi Novel (and We're All Trapped Inside It) disinformation http://disinfo.com/2015/06/dictionaryscifinoveltrappedinside/ 1/12 Navigation Figure 1: A diagram showing the escape route of a Shakespearean escape artist from an Elizabethan playhouse. All the words ever written form a passage through which the player must pass. The Dictionary Is a Scifi Novel (and We’re All Trapped Inside It) by Richard Drake on June 27, 2015 in Philosophy, Politics, Science/Technology The Dark Meaning Research Institute has published its most mind‑blowing paper yet. It reveals that we live in a linguistic simulation of the universe, and it suggests ways we can escape from it… The vast majority of people never learn the big secrets about their existence due to the huge amount of work done by the authorities to keep certain things hidden (and then to make a secret of their secrecy). Fortunately, the DMRI has spent many years trying to undo that work with its undercover research and is now in a position to begin the Big Reveal. One of the biggest secrets you will ever learn is this: The universe we live in is a simulation. This may seem like an idea that can only exist in science fiction, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t true. This is because we live in a science fiction novel called The Dictionary. The technology used to create a realistic simulation of the universe is called language, and it fools us into thinking we are experiencing reality when we use it. People have been trying to warn us about the false nature of what we call “reality” for some time now, but the deeper significance of each message is not usually perceived because we MORE IN ASMR, BUCKAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE, E PARASEMANTICS, QUAN Esperanto — cont left off Something to look int front of a computer. W page: Esperanto is a language....
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5/9/2015 The Dictionary Is a Scifi Novel (and We're All Trapped Inside It) disinformation
Figure 1: A diagram showing the escape route of a Shakespeareanescape artist from an Elizabethan playhouse. All the words ever written
form a passage through which the player must pass.
The Dictionary Is a Scifi Novel (and We’re All Trapped Inside It)by Richard Drake on June 27, 2015 in Philosophy, Politics, Science/Technology
The Dark Meaning Research Institute has published its most mind‑blowing paper yet. It reveals that we live in alinguistic simulation of the universe, and it suggests ways we can escape from it…
The vast majority of peoplenever learn the big secretsabout their existence due tothe huge amount of workdone by the authorities tokeep certain things hidden(and then to make a secret oftheir secrecy). Fortunately,the DMRI has spent manyyears trying to undo thatwork with its undercoverresearch and is now in aposition to begin the BigReveal.
One of the biggest secrets youwill ever learn is this: Theuniverse we live in is asimulation.
This may seem like an idea that can only exist in science fiction, but that doesn’t mean it isn’ttrue. This is because we live in a science fiction novel called The Dictionary. The technologyused to create a realistic simulation of the universe is called language, and it fools us intothinking we are experiencing reality when we use it.
People have been trying to warn us about the false nature of what we call “reality” for sometime now, but the deeper significance of each message is not usually perceived because we
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only have the eyes to read it (instead of seeing it), which means everything is processed bythe linguistic system and all references to that which is beyond it are deleted because they“do not compute”.
We normally just accept the two‑dimensional meaning of a text (which can be the universeitself because, as many physicists have pointed out, it may exist as a two‑dimensional surfacewith the rest of the information that we experience as three dimensions holographicallywritten on it as a “description”) and go about our simulated business rather than treating it asa Magic Eye passage through which we can glimpse a deeper meaning.
Translating into words the message that we need to move beyond words is like asking aprison warden to describe the best escape route from their prison – whatever they say, it isguaranteed not to contain the information we need.
If we want to gain access to that information, we first have to realise that it exists beyondquestions and answers. Every question is really a semi‑proposition loaded with words, and itis used as a weapon with which to threaten nature into giving an interrogator the “correct”answer.
Language tricks us into thinking that if we can ask a question, there must be a meaningfulanswer to it. The desire to know the meaning of our existence is fundamental, but trying tofind it using only words means we leave out everything that words cannot express. As thelinguistic uncertainty principle states, the act of measurement affects that which is beingmeasured, so the question ends up being a self‑fulfilling prophecy, creating what it enquiresafter. Since questions are always formulated in words, the answer to every question, even themost profoundly philosophical ones about what exists beyond the surface level of perception(i.e. beyond linguistic representations), will be constructed from the same material that thesurface level is built from.
If we ask the simulation of reality if it is reality, the answer will always be yes, but thatdoesn’t mean it’s true from every perspective. When we consider that what is true is only trueaccording to the definition of what is true, it is obvious that we have been made to believe thatwords and reality are the same thing by an absurd circular argument.
All discussions take place in the dictionary, not in the world. Everyone “plays a part” in thebook of word meanings, but only a select few play a part in writing it.
All the world’s a stage…
When you realise that the universe we live in is made of two‑dimensional representations, itis possible to begin manipulating it. The linguistic manipulation the DMRI is concerned withis not the sort that can be found in popular books on Neuro‑Linguistic Programming whichpromise to help people to “influence others” and “get ahead in business” (because suchstrategies amount to little more than serving “I”, the character you play within the Matrix);instead, it is the sort of manoeuvring that allows you to find an escape route out of the
5/9/2015 The Dictionary Is a Scifi Novel (and We're All Trapped Inside It) disinformation
Figure 2: Lightning strikes can take different forms. Thefirst is the cartoonlike simplification used by Nazis
(which functions as a dividing tool when thoughts are
linguistic simulation altogether. Desiring something from the surface level (such as money)rather than something beyond it (the meaning of money at the very least; or, even better,something that completely transcends wealth and poverty) guarantees that you will remaintrapped holographically on the surface of the page because both the problem (poverty) andthe solution (wealth) are found there. The most important leap mankind can make is overeither/or thinking.
If the question/answer dichotomy is the same as the problem/solution dichotomy, the way toescape both could be to follow the question mark backwards through time, along its historyand up the Tree of Meaning, to the original punctus interrogativus that Zeus threw out ofheaven in anger when his authority was challenged. If we close our eyes and imagine thevery first lightning flash coming down from above and planting what it enquired after in thevoid of black earth, we see an opportunity to steal the fire of the gods because the retinalafterimage on our mind’s eye is also a secret map of the route out of the simulation…
When we lay this lightning strike over the brain, it gives us the path of a higher thought, aflash of “divine” inspiration through the neural network. The more complex the thought, themore it branches out at different points and connects up ideas that would not normally bedeemed compatible (the most extreme example being so‑called “mutually exclusive”possibilities like being simultaneously alive and dead).
We can either turn the question back against itself (“fracking”) or accept that the only answerto any question is every possible answer at once, and then discover that both actions are oneand the same thing.
The people who write the code of the Oxford English Fictionary want your thoughts to looklike vertical lightning strikes which function as dividing lines between you and a higherreality (including a higher self); but the DMRI is fighting back by encouraging people to havethoughts that resemble the original Tree of Meaning which was cut into extremely thin stripsto create the pages on which the code of the simulation is written.
Advertising, propaganda and otherforms of programming aim to createlightning conductors in the brain sothoughts follow a very narrow, linearpath every time they occur. The more thepath is taken, the more likely it is to beused again in the future. It doesn’tmatter if someone watches adverts ontelevision and tells themselves they areabove them because they can see howthey are deceptive – the adverts still walkthem down the path of thought whichbecomes more and more well‑trodden
modelled on it); the second is a naturally occurringshape made by energy travelling through multiple
pathways at once (which is what happens in the brainwhen dark meaning is comprehended).
Figure 3: The play within the play inHamlet is like a cube within a tesseract,which means the audience are inside a
penteract, which is a play inside ahexeract, and so on. Every extra
dimension of meaning exists within the
and will therefore be the path of leastresistance through which cognitiveenergy will travel when the person is outin the “real” world and away from thetelevision.
It is sensible to carry out a pre‑emptive strike and build new emergency channels for energyto take through your cognitive medium whenever it is hit by lightning; otherwise, themanufactured routes that have been installed by programmers will become the default routesfor thought in every situation where new information has to be processed quickly. If enoughemergency byways are put in place in your mind, they will begin linking up and sharinginformation, which is how the main escape route from the simulation is formed. By travellingalong these new neural paths, you will be departing from somebody else’s narrative of yourlife and will begin to map out your reality, the undiscovered country.
After that, the process of blasting off from the map altogether and becoming a higher‑dimensional explorer begins when a person accepts that maps are useless if they representthe territory with absolute accuracy (a map on a scale of 1:1 would just be a replica of theterritory). Similarly, if words create a map of the universe, they must leave out someimportant information, otherwise they would just be what they represent and would cease toexist as words. A huge amount of energy to power a blast‑off from the page can be generatedby going one level higher intellectually and considering the universe itself as an inaccuratemap of another territory. This can give a person their first sense of the meaning of meaning.
Since an understanding of the mind requires an evenbigger mind, this is how the evolution of consciousnessworks. We are in the process of expanding the mind tounderstand it as it is now, but the result will be an evenbigger mind which will need a still bigger mind tounderstand it. If we force our consciousness to expandby embracing paradoxes and meta‑paradigms,eventually we will become too complex for thesimulation to contain us and we will burst out.
Hamlet used a play within the play he was trapped into bring about a crack in his reality, and we are doingthe same thing. The DMRI’s literature is thissimulation’s The Mouse‑trap.
If a book takes more than a lifetime to read, it can neverexist in the head of a human being. If a longer‑than‑lifework of literature does exists, the human being mustexist inside it. What we call our universe is that book,and the only way to escape from it is to make our heads
language is not the only culprit one can also blame the human image processing systemselectromagnetism as well asinstinctive biases and enculturation which usually operate unnoticed as well as beliefs requiring faithto create the delusion wee love to callREALITY
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Chaos_Dynamics • 2 months ago> BuzzCoastin
Embedded biases are a bitch.
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BuzzCoastin • 2 months ago> Chaos_Dynamics
my Confirmation Biascouldn't agree more
List of cognitive biaseshttp://rationalwiki.org/wiki/L...
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theatrical structure even though it isperceived by people outside it. Goinginto the quantum level of the story andunderstanding its deepest propertiestherefore takes us, paradoxically, to ahigher level of perception (the level of
the author of our reality).
big enough to encompass it, which means uncoveringall the dark meaning we can.
I don't know that I can accept the first point. My eyes helped me long before Icould comprehend words and they just showed your idea to me
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BuzzCoastin • 2 months ago> Mr B
given that what wee call sight is a mental constructa reassemble of chemical data based upon sensory imputit's no more real than wordsbutt the images do proceed words by at least several millisecondsbut the images went through at least 30 processing systemsbefore you "saw" them
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Earthstar • 2 months ago> Mr B
Did your eyes really help you? How do you know? What do you rememberfrom the time before you were languaged? I'm guessing not that much.
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Satan's left Nut • 2 months ago> BuzzCoastin
Before the images are interpreted and named, they are just signals. Languagedefines how we interpret the signals.
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BuzzCoastin • 2 months ago> Satan's left Nut
"the images" are creations of the image processing systems before wordswe use words to explain the images the processing systems created
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Algonquin Jane • 2 months ago> BuzzCoastin
Interesting to note how this had been worked out a few centuriesback, and codified in the Abhidhamma text. Or maybe that'sanother textual prison.
I conjecture the Abhidhamma is the remnant of some previous ancient civilization(maybe Mu)whose insights survived in various forms we know of as Hinduism & Buddhismbut primarily Buddhism
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izzyizzo • 2 months ago> BuzzCoastin
There's something to this.
Some folks who have mild visual developmental impairments that affectprocessing but not the ocular wetware (e.g. strabismus) may possess the capacityto See Differently™ I know one person who claims to see beyond our usualperception with his left eye due to the oddity, though on an ophthalmologist'schart that eye is "dim" or "low vision." Perhaps his "software filter" was knockedsideways a bit and he's picking up a different range of the EM spectrum?
(Keep in mind that just a few years ago visual synesthesia was considered a wildnutjob claim, but now is acceptable enough to approved by my spellchecker.)
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BuzzCoastin • 2 months ago> izzyizzo
Sacks & Ramachandran bothhave published lots of material about the effects of impairments of the visual processing systeme.g. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat
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izzyizzo • 2 months ago> BuzzCoastin
Sacks is quite the character, there's something special about a guywhose web site includes an "Inspired By Me" section. That said, thebook looks good and I've Amazoned it.
Good thing I don't have a wife.
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BuzzCoastin • 2 months ago> izzyizzo
Ramachandran's The TellTale Brain is also quite insightfulthe guy figured out how to amputate a phantom limbusing mirrors in a cardboard boxgreat stories about how the brain's image processing systems work
poetry, this reads as poetry"Language is a virus". Willy S Burroughs
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Mr B • 2 months ago
I just watched and listened to a few minutes of the founder/director of this allegedinstitute, from the official video made in his "underground bunker" or perhaps locallibrary's badlylit corner.
Imo my fellow bearded Englishman is: paranoid, delusional and intellectuallyincoherant.
Judge for yourself:
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Chaorder Gradient • 2 months ago> Mr B
hah: the only comment on the video:"language will never be sufficiently powerful enough to convey how hilarious thisvideo was."
Other than that, I could only tolerate his humble pompasity (is that even a word?)up to 2:11.
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terrasodium • 2 months ago> Mr B
“Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.” ― Martin Heidegger
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Dion Draper • 5 hours ago> Mr B
a linguistic singularity? this all comes down to one word? could it be huh?
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Silent Waft • 2 months ago> Mr B
I like how there's a big book just called "HITLER" in the background
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Eric Mcoo • 2 months ago> Mr B
I suspect it's meant to be funny.
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Luke • 2 months ago
The website is obviously a joke. Still more coherent, interesting, and insightful than thepostmodern/poststructuralist nonsense it parodies...
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Ed Buskirk Jr. • 2 months ago> Luke
It's clearly satire, it's just too verbose to be truly effective.
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Gjallarbru • 2 months ago
It's weird, because it is with article like these that I finally understand some parts of theteachings circulating in my lodge. For instance, it is repeated regularly that God (or theGreat Architect) can only be defined by silence, or the absence of words. This used tomake some sense, but in light of this article, it now makes a whole lot of sense.
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Daniel • 3 hours ago
as "they" say "For now we see through a glass, darkly"
