Déjà vu

Wait, have I been here before? Have you ever visited a place for the first time and had it feel eerily familiar? Or maybe you’re deep in conversation with a friend and you suddenly get the feeling that you have had the exact conversation before, even though you know that you haven’t.

Déjà vu is a French term, which construe as ‘already seen’. Markovitz(1952) spelled out it as a feeling that the current situation has previously been experienced, despite the circumstances of the past experience (that is, when, where, and how the earlier experience occurred) being uncertain and/or impossible. That’s spooky, some people consider déjà vu as a sign of recalling an experience from a past life. Consequently, déjà vu refers not to a prophetic vision, but rather, a false memory; a ‘glitch’ in a one’s understanding of what’s real.

** Studying directly glitch in the matrix can collapse your brain. For your safety, let us first find out how Glitch in the brain is affecting us and our day-to-day living with an interesting context of The Final Destination movie ! ! ! **

Glitch In The Brain

Many researchers thought that forgetting was a passive process in which, memories which are unused decays over time. But enhanced contemporary research says forgetting is active process. Our brain’s standard state is not to remember, but to forget. Oliver Hardt says, “To have proper memory function, you have to have forgetting. “The more often a memory is recall or look back on, memory sets off as encoded in both the hippocampus and the cortex. In due course, it exists separately in the cortex, where it is put away for long-term storage.

There is no doubt that people experience glitches in their stream of perception of external reality. This is an usual topic of psychological study. One very customary subject matter of critical thinking and scientific skepticism is that we be intent on explain these apparent glitches as immense neurological phenomena.

Sometimes illness or drugs usher a heightened awareness causes hallucinations, which are confused with déjà vu. Precognitive experiences — experiences where someone gets a feeling that they know exactly what’s going to happen next, and it does (or prognosticators prophesies a future event). Precognitive dreams — dreams that give us ‘déjà vu’ inklings. In the general run of things, true déjá vu typically endured only for 10 to 30 seconds, in contrast these false memories or hallucinations can last much longer. (May this explanation remind you of Final Destination movie :))

Ergo, when someone experiences a discernible incongruity, such as seeing a ‘ghost’ or unexplained object and phenomena, something disappearing, or an amazing coincidence, the principle of neuropsychological meekness means that they should consider that the experience was a glitch of the brain function, not an accurate reflection of external reality. All neurological phenomena required to be modestly winnowed out prior to an exterior event is seriously entertained.

Our stream of experience is an extremely active constructive process. Perceptions are filtered, altered, enhanced, compared, matched to internal patterns, and altered again. Attention, cognitive biases, and expectations all shape our perceptions of reality.

Within titular framework, the brain is not always functioning ‘normally’. We may be sleepy, drunk, highly emotional, or even experience seizures or similar neurological phenomena. But even when functioning perfectly, the brain is subject to glitches. Some researchers posit that similar neural misfiring – a glitch in the system – also causes healthy, seizure-free brains to experience a sense of familiarity when there’s no reason to. This psychologically false déjà vu caused by biological dysfunction(epilepsy),implicit familiarity and divided perception, subjective paranormal, schizophrenia.

To be specific, when we experience something weird, our first premise should be that the experience is an internal phenomenon, a reflection of a glitchy brain, not an external reality, a reflection of a glitchy reality. Parsing reality is horrendously complex. Our brains do an incredible job, but they are also an evolved mess and have serious limitations. It is no wonder that our perception of reality is a little fuzzy at the edges.

Glitch in the Matrix – Virtual Reality

This subject matter garnered all the attention and is very prominent among quantum physicists, neuropsychologists and science fiction movies and this idea has some high profile advocates because it seems to erode our very notion of reality.

In 2003,swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom professor at University of Oxford asserted three propositions from his growing body of work:

1. The Human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a ‘posthuman’ stage.
2. Any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history(or variations thereof).
3. We are almost certainly living in a computer simulation.

There are already good reasons to think that we are living in a simulation. After all, this is all just surmises. Will we ever be able to find any evidences of this?

The pre-eminent technique is to search for flaws in the program, such as glitches in the matrix. There might be lagniappe errors due to any rounding off or approximations in computations. For any event which possesses several possible outcomes, their probabilities should add up to 1.If they were amiss something, there could be such errors we can consider as glitches.

But our skeptic instinct are dubious about this belief. At an instant we make out our perception about universe that we live in simulation and the very other moment we feels that how can be that real. The just-risen sun shone softly on the city streets, bringing with flurry of morning activity with a cup of coffee in one hand or thick clouds blotted out the stars and inky blackness in the clear and cold night sky – how can such lavishness be faked?

The earliest Matrix movie was ingenious and unprecedented.(spoiler ahead :’) )

It delineates a dystopia future in which reality as discerned by most humans is actually a simulated reality called Matrix. In movie, they discovered that inside this simulation environment known as The Matrix, they can control, bend, and manipulate space-time. The effects like slow-motion “bullet time” were groundbreaking and revolutionary when we first saw them 20 years ago, which we now take for granted. The matrix is a virtual reality created by advanced intelligent machines to keep humanity in control whilst using them for energy to power themselves. This all occurred after man created AI and lost a war with them.

Consequently most of humanity was living, unbeknownst to them, in a digital simulated world. They were actually floating in pods, bungged in to an extensive computer. There are sporadic glitches, usually when those who control the Matrix instigate new code. This is experience by humans trapped in the Matrix as experiences of déjà vu, or errors in perception.

This is was a gripping plot point because it was contrasting from main stream science fiction. Foreseeably since then, some people started to believe as if it applies to the real world and proving that we are actually living in the matrix. In an animated sequel ‘Animatrix’ glitches were avail to explain apparent paranormal activity. A haunted house was simply a computer glitch.

The universe emerged from emptiness randomly. It only appears the way it is because emergent conscious intelligence make this so. It is incomprehensible to say that anything existed before, since there was no time and all probabilities are simultaneous in one eternal moment of creation, the ‘zero point’. Energy is zero, or undefined, at the zero-point so something has to destabilize the quantum stillness to initiate vibrations.

Quantum phenomena requires an observer. If there is no observer the universe remains quantum and undefined and this universe would be empty and meaningless. The observation is essential for reality to manifest. With every possible state of existence of wavefunction the reality split into worlds according to outcomes. It would be tremendous to see if quantum consciousness researchers can run tests to determine if scientists are discovering what they are looking for by collapsing wave functions of smaller and smaller, or more and more distant things, via technology; thus extending our lens of observation.

If we had an adequate powerful quantum computer networked to consciousness, we would create a quantum framework from which classical reality arises. The quantum can be created on super-super-D-wave as a simulation with replicated quantum physics and fields identical to those of our universe. This simulation seems fine-tuned mystery. But this discussion hold off to get us anywhere.

There is an abstraction of base reality, insinuates that there are multiple layers of reality, with the topmost Brobdingnagian layer of reality as it most ostensibly materialize to us and the bottom layer contained with reality as it actually is. There are another depictions of reality as well,such as perceived, unobservable, hypothetical, subjective, intersubjective etc. However this concept of base reality seems more cogent and persuasive because it’s potentially inclusive of all realities.

We all are mired in conflict So what do you want to do stay down and drive yourself crazy with questions or move on without answers

Do we see reality as it is? Our senses just mediocre inputs of our brain? That all we have is garbled reality, a fuzzy picture we will never truly makeout. Maybe truth don’t even exist? Maybe what we think is all we got.

It’s the illusion of the choices

Or our choices are prepaid for us popping with a relevation you’ve secretly known all along.
You’re the only force of nature at play here. Our subconscious, running in the background, making is doubt.

—Atomic Dhruvi