How to Program Reality - Akira the Don, Scott Adams

Let me show you my path towards figuring out the user interface

It’s important that you know how I got there so that you can have some trust

that there’s something to it

When I was a kid, I was influenced, as was my mother, by the book,

«The Power of Positive Thinking» by Norman Vincent Peale

It suggested that you could somehow change your life or maybe you were changing

reality if you could simply think positively

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So this was my first introduction to the concept that maybe reality was not

fixed and something that you were a victim of, but rather, you could do

something

There was some mechanism, some technique, some tools you could use to get some

control over your environment and your life as opposed to having it control you

And that was my first thought that reality could be programmable in at least

some simple sense

But of course, I embarked on a lifetime of exploration to find out if I could

find out more about how to program reality

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That led me to learn meditation, I became a trained hypnotist

Of course, mushrooms, let you see the world in a completely different reality

And all these things, from studying all the different religions to doing

affirmations, which is really just visualizing what you want and writing it out

everyday

(Visualizing what you want, writing it down everyday)

And then learning persuasion, these all have the same cumulative effect of

teaching me that reality was indeed far more subjective than you’re led to

believe

When I say reality is subjective, I don’t mean that there isn’t some base

reality that’s real

What I mean is that we don’t have access to it

In other words, just take religion

Two people with completely different religions can go into a store and they can

shop, they can get married, have children

They don’t really need to reconcile the fact that they live in different worlds

One thinks there’s an afterlife, one thinks there’s reincarnation,

one thinks there’s nothing and yet we all survive and thrive and reproduce

There’s nothing to suggest that our brains are the kind of brains that can

understand reality

Instead, all of the evidence suggests that we can put filters, optionally and

somewhat subjectively, on our reality and the thing that we deal with is a

filter

We’re not dealing with the underlying reality, our filter on it is the thing

that’s real to us

And you can change those filters, so that’s the important part

And you can change them fairly easily and if you find a filter that predicts

better and makes you happier, well, that’s the better filter, even if it isn’t

a better approximation of reality

What matters is you’re happy, what matters is you’re getting what you need

outta life

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How to program reality

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Program reality

You can change those filters

Change those filters

Change those filters

How to program reality

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So, once you accept that there’s a subjective reality, you’re starting to get

ready to accept the user interface for that reality