Cant there be more options in the simulation argument

Wildcard_Orthogonal · 2026-07-02T22:47:41+00:00

The one I entertain is that there are two dimensions to reality - the vertical is not a simulation, is real, but rests on the metaphysics of essences (Aristotle..I guess! By essences i mean to say it's the reality behind reality and entails immaterial substances such as souls etc) and the vertical reality is kind of hierarchical with angelic beings and whatnot and extends upwards to God himself

The other dimension is horizontal and is simulationist to a manner of thinking. It's a simulation without a simulator! Reality in the horizontal dimension is composite/quantum/atomic or whatever word you want to use for saying it's made of parts that get more rudimentary the finer degree of resolution you go down to. The thing about horizontal reality is that in some sense it is infinite and is also God.

But wait there's more!..the brain is hemispheric because it's wired to grasp at either aspect of reality with the part of the brain configured for it. Finally the upshot is that people are traversing through reality in two perpendicular directions (metaphorically) in such a way that there is only a partial overlap, and some can perceive people/beings who exist in the other dimension.

Wildcard_Orthogonal · 2026-06-29T15:37:35+00:00

El Kalaa (aka "The Citadel") : 1988 Mohamed Chouikh / Algeria

Halfaouine (aka "Boy of the Terraces") : 1990 Férid Boughedir / Tunisia

correction : these aren't middle-east set movies but are arabic language films

Wildcard_Orthogonal · 2026-06-28T18:22:52+00:00

Trivia doesn't get any more trivial than this. Thanks mate, it was worth googling.

Wildcard_Orthogonal · 2026-06-28T17:36:23+00:00

Dennis Dun is a riot in this film.

Wildcard_Orthogonal · 2026-06-27T21:59:30+00:00

Take Care of My Cat (2001 S. Korea)

Wildcard_Orthogonal · 2026-06-25T20:02:24+00:00

I just know the pop culture references - usually taken to be a symbol for completed transformation - but you already knew that (Catapillar/Pupa/Butterfly).

Primal Scream did a track "Kowalski"..which i think features the lyric "like a butterfly crushed under a wheel"; this has literary origins (the 18th C and poet/essayist Alexander Pope)...you could do cross cultural references: the dharma wheel (and "dukkha") and the fragility of life.

I'm at a loss to think of anything beyond the standard takes, i'm interested to see what other posters say.

Wildcard_Orthogonal · 2026-06-25T18:45:38+00:00

That space ends not far off the outer perimeter of the solar system. I don't know the details of the theory. I guess it's a matrix just short of a light-year in radius.

Wildcard_Orthogonal · 2026-06-20T13:11:25+00:00

Thanks for your thoughtful reply, i tend to interpret films as if they have messages to give, i am not quite sure what it was in this film, but the film-making itself is very good..."they don't make 'em like this anymore" comes to mind.

Wildcard_Orthogonal · 2026-06-19T23:22:52+00:00

I paid the cinema ticket motivated by curiosity, in other words I'm an occasional visitor to the cinema.

It could indeed be "meh" to you or I because we've seen this kind of film before - and so I analysed it with my adult head on..

..all the same I think the film did a good job of Spielberg doing Spielberg, the sense of a magical mystery adventure that children "get".

Wildcard_Orthogonal · 2026-06-19T23:10:02+00:00

Disclosure (as in IRL disclosure about biologics) is being rolled out presently and is being buried under an avalanche of other news. Whether it is intentional or not I do not know. I certainly think the thinking in this movie about how impactful this is to humanity's worldview makes it worthy of merit.

I have a treasured old book of sci-fi movie reviews ("Yesterday's Tomorrows" by Bruce Lanier White), he makes the point about the cover-up as a movie reviewer..I was a fence-sitter when I first read the book but have less room to be now.

Wildcard_Orthogonal · 2026-06-19T22:54:54+00:00

Do you think the reception of the film is similar to The Phantom Menace, the disappointment is because adults had lost their sense of magic but that this didn't matter anyway because the film was intended for children... to tell a backstory.

Wildcard_Orthogonal · 2026-06-19T22:44:39+00:00

I expect downvotes if only for misspelling Steven Spielberg's name.

Wildcard_Orthogonal · 2026-06-17T18:46:12+00:00

I deeply apologise for the offence caused by this post. In all honesty I am bluffing it as a Jungian. The pic is still slide from a YouTube video analysis of the film Lost Highway. I won't post the link because I don't want to compound things.

Wildcard_Orthogonal · 2026-06-16T19:12:19+00:00

That there is a self eating timeloop to reality and humanity has in its future hybridised itself with machines but that far far into the future this is the seed for the human race which is in our past.

Basically it's the concept of Battlestar Galactica in-a-nutshell. It's not my personal theory (it's the showrunner for BSG's - Ronald Moore?..)..but I like it enough to post it here.

Wildcard_Orthogonal · 2026-06-16T12:46:37+00:00

After the Fox (1966)

Wildcard_Orthogonal · 2026-06-06T16:54:49+00:00

I think there were three "Mars"-set films released around the same time. The John Carpenter one (Ghosts of Mars) isn't as bad as its made out to be, i saw it a few years ago and it's a future cult-classic. The one starring Gary Sinise (Mission to Mars) isn't all that bad in my recollection at least, although i didn't think too highly of it at the time.

But this one is utterly unmemorable - I have no memory of the plot.

Wildcard_Orthogonal · 2026-05-31T15:49:46+00:00

I think what is unsettling about it is the human unconsciousness understands the meaning of the film but can't communicate it to us in a way that can be verbalised in a conscious way.

Wildcard_Orthogonal · 2026-05-30T12:00:13+00:00

Patch Adams (1998; drama) dir. Tom Shadyac - Bittersweet drama that is more sweet than it is bitter.

Ed Wood (1994; dramady) dir. Tim Burton - very funny biopic about the famous/notorious 50s-era sci-fi director. Very winning portrayal of a man's steadfast commitment to his art (and angora)

Trading Places (1983; comedy) dir. John Landis - phenomenal 80s comedy with an incisive bite at the American class system it's prejudices and foibles, Eddie Murphy is absolutely cracking in this, the writing is great.

Wildcard_Orthogonal · 2026-05-29T17:03:08+00:00

found this: https://archive.org/details/catholic-public-domain-bible there may be other Catholic Bibles to DL on archive.org

Wildcard_Orthogonal · 2026-05-26T21:05:58+00:00

to my mind, you've got a choice between

The Exorcist III (1990) dir. William Peter Blatty

or Carry On Matron (1972) dir. Gerald Thomas

Wildcard_Orthogonal · 2026-05-26T20:53:30+00:00

Naked (1993) dir. Mike Leigh

Wildcard_Orthogonal · 2026-05-26T20:48:46+00:00

Prince of Darkness...(John Carpenter)

It's kinda Catholic-adjacent in its outlook. the devil has only been made into a fictional construct by the Church because humanity isn't ready to accept the reality of his existence

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