Well, where do i sign up for that? I mean, it's not like it wasn't bad enough the first time. Let's analyze the psychoanalytic value of VR treatment for PTSD patients in a more C-esque manner:
function dumbAssTherapyTechnique(you&) {
while ( !you.cured ) {
you.reliveWorstMomentInYourLife();
if (!you.feelbetter) {
dumbAssTherapyTechnique(you);
} else {
you.cured = true;//odds of this happening - 10000000000000 to 1
}
return I_THINK_IM_CURED; }
The _only_ value in this VR idea is for treating chronic phobias, and even if at best, reducing the phobic reactions. PSTDs and phobias are are two completely different concepts and I HIGHLY doubt the value of this type of therapy for PSTD patients. If you'd like to test my theory, ask a rape victim if she'd like to relive the _experience_. Burn victims are one thing (physical pain translating into mental pain), but most (not all) PTSD are opposite in nature to burn victims. It's a nice idea and if it works for burn victims, great. But please, think just a minute before applying 1 minor progressive technique to other domains in psychology.
Does anyone know of a law where if the suing party loses the case they have to pay all court costs and such? Seems to me that would be a pretty appropriate law for such silly cases as the RIAA and SCO.
I'm mean, good for her standing up the the RIAA, but wouldn't big organizations think a little bit before lauching the all-out lawyer blitz on someone else?
Ok, I've only read about a billion of the trillion posts on the Matrix reloaded, so I'd like to offer yet another silly theory. I've stated my view with a few friends (although afterwards, I doubt they'd call me a friend):) The theory being that basically, Zion is another matrix within a matrix.
So, if I could entertain you with another useless Matrix Reloaded theory and get some feedback or point out the flaws to which I so humanly would, should and probably have missed.
There are 3 key elements in the movie that give me my theory.
1. Agent Smith infecting (?) the Zion citizen inside and OUTSIDE the matrix (remember the knife he was gonna use on Neo?) 2. Neo's being able to "feel" the machines and apparently stop/kill sentinels at will 3. The counselor of Zion
1. Ok, how agent Smith copies himself within the context of the matrix is irrelevant, but how is he able to copy himself literally into someone's conscious being? His ability to ignore the matrix's construct of rules for agents makes him another rogue program just like the rest of the old rogue programs. How is it that he can ACTUALLY EXIST CONSCIOUSLY OUTSIDE THE MATRIX?!?!?!?!? Isn't he just a bunch of 1s and 0s! If smith is a program, and humans are essentially programs ONLY and ONLY inside the matrix, then Agent smith CANNOT exist in the "real world" unless the "real world" was a simulation just as the matrix. So, if Zion is a program, just like the matrix, isn't this somewhat 2 matrices or for you programmers, an array within another array element? (Pointer to an array within an array, right?)
2. Neo's ability to "feel" the machines only enhances the notion of the "real world" being another simulation. Do you know of anyone able to "feel" a machine, and not just touch a machine, I mean figuratively "feel" a machine. WTF?! Please. This is something that CAN only exist IN a simulation just as the matrix. This isn't by any standards a "real world" possiblity in our universe or perhaps our lifetime to say the least. This is probably the easiest point to see that Zion was a whole other matrix.
3. We know the architect and oracle are programs, but what about the counselor of zion? Man, that dude was creepy. Well, not creepy, but damn fishy to me. Guy doesn't sleep much (he's nothing but code. he doesn't NEED to sleep), and then starts talking to Neo about how machines and man need one another. Hmmm.... Then, he allow Morpheus to take his ship to broadcast depth and operate within the matrix, thus setting up Neo's mind-blowing conversation with the architect. The counselor was VERY pivotal in the movie, even though his role pailed in comparison to the others.
So to wrap up my crazy/silly theory, Agent Smith's "existence" in the real world suggests that Zion is NOT the real world but another matrix. Neo's crazy comic book hero-like ability to "feel" the machines in a spidey-sense like fashion is VERY CLEARLY NOT REAL WORLD-ESQUE (spelling?). The counselor is a bit of a longshot. He MAY very well be a human, or a program (although techincally everyone IN the matrix is program-like). The proof for him being a program is mere speculation, but none the less, if he's human, it doesn't detract from my point that this whole matrix within a matrix idea is far-fetched. And if he IS a program like the architect/oracle/agent smith, etc. etc., then it only helps my idea along.
On a side note (if you can withstand the crap you've already read, a little more won't hurt right?), if you also think within the context of each matrix, Zion and the pseudo-"real world", basically, the two matricies have no REAL knowledge of the whole picture (except the architect, oracle and maybe the counselor). Agents are always trying to kill Neo, yet he CANNOT be killed because that's his supposed delegated destiny from the Matrix. It's like the matrix created agents just to give the people of zion something to fear or worry about or even a PURPOSE for living when they're in the matrix. Agents have NO SCOP
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Well, where do i sign up for that? I mean, it's not like it wasn't bad enough the first time. Let's analyze the psychoanalytic value of VR treatment for PTSD patients in a more C-esque manner:
//odds of this happening - 10000000000000 to 1
function dumbAssTherapyTechnique(you&) {
while ( !you.cured ) {
you.reliveWorstMomentInYourLife();
if (!you.feelbetter) {
dumbAssTherapyTechnique(you);
} else {
you.cured = true;
}
return I_THINK_IM_CURED;
}
The _only_ value in this VR idea is for treating chronic phobias, and even if at best, reducing the phobic reactions. PSTDs and phobias are are two completely different concepts and I HIGHLY doubt the value of this type of therapy for PSTD patients. If you'd like to test my theory, ask a rape victim if she'd like to relive the _experience_.
Burn victims are one thing (physical pain translating into mental pain), but most (not all) PTSD are opposite in nature to burn victims. It's a nice idea and if it works for burn victims, great. But please, think just a minute before applying 1 minor progressive technique to other domains in psychology.
Does anyone know of a law where if the suing party loses the case they have to pay all court costs and such? Seems to me that would be a pretty appropriate law for such silly cases as the RIAA and SCO.
I'm mean, good for her standing up the the RIAA, but wouldn't big organizations think a little bit before lauching the all-out lawyer blitz on someone else?
Just a thought.
Ok, I've only read about a billion of the trillion posts on the Matrix reloaded, so I'd like to offer yet another silly theory. I've stated my view with a few friends (although afterwards, I doubt they'd call me a friend) :) The theory being that basically, Zion is another matrix within a matrix.
So, if I could entertain you with another useless Matrix Reloaded theory and get some feedback or point out the flaws to which I so humanly would, should and probably have missed.
There are 3 key elements in the movie that give me my theory.
1. Agent Smith infecting (?) the Zion citizen inside and OUTSIDE the matrix (remember the knife he was gonna use on Neo?)
2. Neo's being able to "feel" the machines and apparently stop/kill sentinels at will
3. The counselor of Zion
1. Ok, how agent Smith copies himself within the context of the matrix is irrelevant, but how is he able to copy himself literally into someone's conscious being? His ability to ignore the matrix's construct of rules for agents makes him another rogue program just like the rest of the old rogue programs. How is it that he can ACTUALLY EXIST CONSCIOUSLY OUTSIDE THE MATRIX?!?!?!?!? Isn't he just a bunch of 1s and 0s!
If smith is a program, and humans are essentially programs ONLY and ONLY inside the matrix, then Agent smith CANNOT exist in the "real world" unless the "real world" was a simulation just as the matrix.
So, if Zion is a program, just like the matrix, isn't this somewhat 2 matrices or for you programmers, an array within another array element? (Pointer to an array within an array, right?)
2. Neo's ability to "feel" the machines only enhances the notion of the "real world" being another simulation. Do you know of anyone able to "feel" a machine, and not just touch a machine, I mean figuratively "feel" a machine. WTF?! Please. This is something that CAN only exist IN a simulation just as the matrix. This isn't by any standards a "real world" possiblity in our universe or perhaps our lifetime to say the least. This is probably the easiest point to see that Zion was a whole other matrix.
3. We know the architect and oracle are programs, but what about the counselor of zion? Man, that dude was creepy. Well, not creepy, but damn fishy to me. Guy doesn't sleep much (he's nothing but code. he doesn't NEED to sleep), and then starts talking to Neo about how machines and man need one another. Hmmm.... Then, he allow Morpheus to take his ship to broadcast depth and operate within the matrix, thus setting up Neo's mind-blowing conversation with the architect. The counselor was VERY pivotal in the movie, even though his role pailed in comparison to the others.
So to wrap up my crazy/silly theory, Agent Smith's "existence" in the real world suggests that Zion is NOT the real world but another matrix. Neo's crazy comic book hero-like ability to "feel" the machines in a spidey-sense like fashion is VERY CLEARLY NOT REAL WORLD-ESQUE (spelling?). The counselor is a bit of a longshot. He MAY very well be a human, or a program (although techincally everyone IN the matrix is program-like). The proof for him being a program is mere speculation, but none the less, if he's human, it doesn't detract from my point that this whole matrix within a matrix idea is far-fetched. And if he IS a program like the architect/oracle/agent smith, etc. etc., then it only helps my idea along.
On a side note (if you can withstand the crap you've already read, a little more won't hurt right?), if you also think within the context of each matrix, Zion and the pseudo-"real world", basically, the two matricies have no REAL knowledge of the whole picture (except the architect, oracle and maybe the counselor). Agents are always trying to kill Neo, yet he CANNOT be killed because that's his supposed delegated destiny from the Matrix. It's like the matrix created agents just to give the people of zion something to fear or worry about or even a PURPOSE for living when they're in the matrix. Agents have NO SCOP