| ScionofDestiny | 05-05-2006 06:37 PM |
I was reading the copper room theory and Big Venus cropped up. I was just wondering.
Who says that Paradigm was taken out of existence? It could well be that Big Venus emitted waves that interfered with the perception of the mind rather than altering that which the mind perceives.
This makes more sense with the word "Paradigm". Paradigm shift means altering perception or thought (and these two things walk hand in hand with each other) - not with altering reality.
I'm aware that you can't twist a word to mean something else, but in Act 14 the word Paradigm Shift appears as the headline of the Newspaper Roger is reading (by Michel Seebach)
That had to be deliberate.
So I don't think that reality is being altered or deleted - although it might be easier to talk about it in that light. I just think that the way people perceive reality is being altered directly.
In short, Big Venus doesn't alter reality - in fact, in a way that doesn't make sense. Much more simply, it emits a wave signal that alters brainwaves to make people think that reality is changing.
Take Roger for example. He hallucinates all the time (especially in the second season) to the point where things seem real, but they can't be - like when he went down in the Subway and when he was lost in "New Paradigm" in Act 14.
THE BIG QUESTION
So the theory sounds viable. What about mass? What if you walked into a bulding you perceived wasn't there?
With a shaky knowledge of perception and cognitive-psychodynamic psychology, I'd say your brain would reprogram or adjust your memories to account for the fact it perceived nothing.
EXAMPLE:
You are walking. You see a wall in front of you. Big Venus comes. There is no wall. You slam into wall.
Your brain perceives no wall, therefore there is no wall. No pain. No recollection of smashing into a wall. The brain does (and this is proven) adjust memories when and as they come into you. So you could walk into the wall but your brain would reconcile it with something else in order to account for the reality it does not receive.
Gordon Rosewater makes a point about memories in this light. They change and are replayed in people's minds while they are inside us - forcing us to challenge if that was ever what really happened at all.
Who says that Paradigm was taken out of existence? It could well be that Big Venus emitted waves that interfered with the perception of the mind rather than altering that which the mind perceives.
This makes more sense with the word "Paradigm". Paradigm shift means altering perception or thought (and these two things walk hand in hand with each other) - not with altering reality.
I'm aware that you can't twist a word to mean something else, but in Act 14 the word Paradigm Shift appears as the headline of the Newspaper Roger is reading (by Michel Seebach)
That had to be deliberate.
So I don't think that reality is being altered or deleted - although it might be easier to talk about it in that light. I just think that the way people perceive reality is being altered directly.
In short, Big Venus doesn't alter reality - in fact, in a way that doesn't make sense. Much more simply, it emits a wave signal that alters brainwaves to make people think that reality is changing.
Take Roger for example. He hallucinates all the time (especially in the second season) to the point where things seem real, but they can't be - like when he went down in the Subway and when he was lost in "New Paradigm" in Act 14.
THE BIG QUESTION
So the theory sounds viable. What about mass? What if you walked into a bulding you perceived wasn't there?
With a shaky knowledge of perception and cognitive-psychodynamic psychology, I'd say your brain would reprogram or adjust your memories to account for the fact it perceived nothing.
EXAMPLE:
You are walking. You see a wall in front of you. Big Venus comes. There is no wall. You slam into wall.
Your brain perceives no wall, therefore there is no wall. No pain. No recollection of smashing into a wall. The brain does (and this is proven) adjust memories when and as they come into you. So you could walk into the wall but your brain would reconcile it with something else in order to account for the reality it does not receive.
Gordon Rosewater makes a point about memories in this light. They change and are replayed in people's minds while they are inside us - forcing us to challenge if that was ever what really happened at all.
