Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for September 29, 2019

hah! Yaay – Ignorance is indeed bliss!

Of course, if the simulation hypothesis is wrong, willful ignorance is endangering us at so many levels and in so many ways.

So many people start off ignorant and then put in overtime.

“Exit to Reality” by Edith Forbes.

1 order of “The Matrix”, coming up!

AH that famous bar, the Twig & Berries

I still live in denial.

It’s not that bad; I hear we’re just information on the surface of a black hole.

“Wilful” in English!

Then my 42 years in a stamping factory had been virtual .

If we are someone’s imagination, that person or thing is really, really messed up.

Anyone trying to decode what Danae and I-forget-his-name are saying in panel 3?

So, 42 really ISN’T the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything??? Bummer…

All I know is something is very wrong with the world today.

Just because a scientist thought it up doesn’t make it science. Nor does it qualify as a theory or a postulate. With work and development it might qualify as science fiction. Multiverse anyone?

“Vive,” not “Viva.”

Sooo… once Neo woke up, he would have poofed out of existence? Are we talking Matrix here or Link’s Awakening?

Scientists booted from EPA panel form their own group

Scientists who were booted from their advisory roles by the Trump administration plan to reconvene their air pollution panel without the backing of the government.

The 20-member review panel was composed of some of the nation’s top scientists, who were tasked with reviewing how soot and other microscopic air pollutants impact human health.

“This is the first time in the history of EPA where the credibility of the agency’s science review process has been so compromised that an independent panel of experts has recognized the need for and will be conducting a comprehensive review,” said Chris Zarba.

The reunion comes amid efforts from the White House to limit the number of scientific review panels across government and as the EPA pushes out a number of regulations that critics say will increase air pollution.

It’s possible the action may spur other groups to form as President Trump encourages departments to axe other similar committees. He signed an executive order in June that requires departments to trim advisory boards by one-third, a move that sparked outrage among scientists.

“Reconvening a disbanded pollutant review panel breaks new ground,” said Gretchen Goldman, a research director at the Union for Concerned Scientists.

“Nothing like this has ever been done before. Indeed, nothing like this has ever been necessary. But we live in unprecedented times.”

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/463225-scientists-booted-from-epa-panel-form-their-own

Thanks to anti-science republicans.

I often wonder if we are figments of our own imaginations. Most of what we think is real is our perception of something that stimulates our senses.

Been done: Star Trek TNG episode—who was the character that the crew fooled into thinking he was real. . .a Sherlock Holmes nemesis. . . Ringworld. . .Matrix. . .Ready Player 1

The rich don’t pay attention to any science that gets in the way of profit. The poor can’t afford to either.

I wish Drumpf was a figment of our imagination.Not as many trolls today.Good morning Russia ;(

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They’re not a computer simulation, but they ARE Wiley generated.

Funny how facts are fueled by whoever is paying for them (and I know I’ll be attacked for saying that).

Middles Ages, hell, more like the Bronze Age! (Without the bronze………)

The young, these days, call weird stuff that happens to people that makes no bloody sense “a glitch in the matrix.” Do a search of the term on Youtube to hear some of the stories about it.

If this is a video game I should get three lives.

Nice to know Tricky Dickey is still alive- he just grew a mustashe !!! lol

Anyone else thinks that guy looks like Nixon? :D

I always thought we were God’s middle-school science project.

So the theory is that the universe we experience was intentionally designed by a higher intelligence. Hmm.

I wonder how many people realize that’s just creationism with a veneer of science slapped on.

Why does the fellow in the blue suit look like Richard Nixon?

Luckily, I’m always plugged in.

“Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the worlds, in all the universes, in all the multiverses, she walks into mine.” Rick Blaine in Casablanca (as revised). ;-}

Some days I wake up and my residual self image looks a lot like Steve Buscemi.

This story has been around for many decades. I first saw it in a short story by, I think, Karel Čapek who used fiction to explore ideas about who we really are and what makes us human.

Think about this: If we are  part of some simulation, then there’s absolutely no risk of Hell (or Heaven): The grad student who’s running the simulation will simply get their data and then turn off the program. Nobody would give them a grant to keep the system running, much less add another pair of systems that give the simulated people a good or bad experience.

The story I heard is that our ‘universe’ is an artificial construction in a warehouse on some planet. They were going to pull the plug on it when they noticed signs of life. They are letting the program run but they are unsure of what to do.

cf. 9 billion names of god. Arthur C Clarke

Not end it just remake it again. The 5th world as the Hopi call it.

A “new” doomsday hypothesis? That’s been a theme in science fiction for years. See “The Matrix” et al.

I hope it happens soon.

See? They can’t get their “Artificial Intelligence” programs to work, either.

Brought to mind a short story I read by Stanislaw Lem many decades ago, still the most disturbing I’ve ever read.About “brains in boxes”, being fed stimuli & believing they were living actual lives.

These creatures you call mice you see are not quite as they appear, they are merely the protrusions into our dimension of vast, hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings.

oh, yeah…heavy sigh…

Don’t you love sci-fi-fi conspiracy theories.

So we aren’t paying several different entities to say the same thing that clean air laws which already address pollutant emissions. Do we like the government throwing money through bureaucratic sub committees into political pockets??? Anti spending Duh!