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I'd like to know Soylentils' takes on the following Sci-Fi thought experiment:
In the near future, scientists create a safe, non-invasive, and irreversible procedure that causes a person to perceive reality without any human biases. It is offered to the general public at no cost and takes 15 minutes with no convalescence time or physical restrictions. The effects take hold gradually over the course of 24 hours and are thereafter permanent.
Would you do it?
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(Score: 2, Informative) by GlennC on Monday November 15 2021, @04:24PM (5 children)
Those who accept it would quickly go insane.
Humans literally cannot cope with it.
Sorry folks...the world is bigger and more varied than you want it to be. Deal with it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 15 2021, @06:16PM
> Humans literally cannot cope with it.
Why would that be the case?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Monday November 15 2021, @07:23PM
The unexamined life, self awareness, all that schtick... Humans who take the time and devote the intention to perceive unvarnished reality do make a lot of progress toward that impossible goal. Unfortunately, many of them end up as beggars in society - Buddhist monks, for example, but many others as well. The rest of us are indeed too distracted by the ersatz rat race to make as much progress along those paths.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by sgleysti on Tuesday November 16 2021, @01:31AM
GlennC interprets the thought experiment in the sense that I intended it. Appreciate all the responses.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 16 2021, @02:57AM
> You mean the complete unvarnished view of Reality?
AKA, the total perspective vortex! Beeblebrox didn't have any problem with that (but everyone else did).
https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Total_Perspective_Vortex [fandom.com]
(Score: 2) by pipedwho on Tuesday November 16 2021, @06:10AM
The pill takers would more likely soon see the rest of society as insane. Society might see them as easy prey and the existing power structures would not appreciate a group of people that can no longer be controlled. The controlled media would be made to brand them as insane.
But, they would be far from insane. It would be the non-takers that would wonder why these people seem so content and full of love. If everyone around you was like a buddha, you'd be more likely to go insane than would the buddhas. You might even try to become more like the buddha.