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LordReed:
Dude! This is what I have been saying from the beginning! A shadow is not made up of substance, that is, it is immaterial.

DeepSight:
It beats the imagination that the same person who can say this can be so worked up at my description of shadows.
What is a shadow, if not the bold?

LordReed:
This is a description of the working of the VR headset, 1 component of VR not the entire thing. That VR environment is not located in the headset. If the VR system processor is sending out the VR signal but the helmet wasn't there, it would mean the VR environment is existing whether it is being projected to your eyes or not. Therefore, VR is not light!

LordReed:
Is it funny that you have so far refused to explain what you mean by lesser light. I ask again, what is lesser light?

DeepSight:
A shadow is nothing. Another object just blocks light from a surface and you call that blocked part a shadow. It really is just teh same surface in lesser light.

DeepSight:
I have explained as much as I can. I cant go further than this. The best I can give you is to say that what you see with VR, is light.

DeepSight:
But come on, that is obvious, haba. That's why I dont explain it. You stand between a source of light and a wall, your shadow appears on the wall. All you are seeing is the portion of the wall your body is blocking. You are just seeing that portion of the wall in lesser light since your body has blocked most of the light from falling on it. It is very tiresome that you make me have to write this.

All that is there is the wall.

LordReed:
It's not obvious to me. The occlusion of light is not lesser light, it's the absence of light. I have never heard anybody apart from you describe shadow as lesser light.

LordReed:
What is the difference between shadow is nothing and shadow is immaterial?

LordReed:
Of course you see light but that's not all VR is.

DeepSight:
I think you are conflating the machinery behind a VR projection with the actual VR you see. I am saying that the VR you see is light. Its like conflating a projected image cast from a projector with the projector itself. The projected image is light.

DeepSight:
Immaterial things actually exist. A shadow is not a thing of itself. You are at all times looking at a surface - which is the thing.

DeepSight:
It can be absence of light or lesser light. Not all shadows are of the same "darkness" - you know this surely. There could be other light sources than the source which is blocked and thus casting the shadow, and some light can still filer onto the blocked surface anyway. God, I cant believe you are making me write these things. It feels like having to explain that "the earth goes round the sun."

plaetton:
Pls tell me when things were ever good in Nigeria.

LordReed:
Nope, I am not. The VR construct is independent of the projection. The VR environment you are seeing is NOT MADE OF LIGHT.

Dtruthspeaker:
Do you not see the threads of "who remembers these things?"

https://www.nairaland.com/2383555/remember-childhood-thing#34823537

plaetton:
Your childhood nostalgia is what you refer to ?
C'mon.

Dtruthspeaker:
It would not be good old days if it was not my childhood. Of which it was still good till 2010.

DeepSight:
Immaterial things actually exist. A shadow is not a thing of itself. You are at all times looking at a surface - which is the thing.

plaetton:
Lol.
It was still good in 2010 ?
The last I can think back and say that things were much better was 1982, when 30 cups of garri was N1.
Then the devil sent Buhari on his first MISSIONLESS journey , and the rest is history.

plaetton:
Yes, immaterial things like radio waves, energy, basically, electromagnetic energy. But, as immaterial as they are , we have instruments to generate, convert, measure and transmit them.
Spirits, on the hand, have never been observed, measured, calibrated, etc.
You accept their existence by faith, and only faith.

Dtruthspeaker:
And many of us where Peak milk, and cornflakes babies. God punish Buhari and Tinubu times 16

DeepSight:
What is it made of?

Pixels, which emit light, is the best answer you can get even with research (I researched the question).

And the emitted light is incontrovertibly what you see.

Now what is a pixel?

A pixel, short for "picture element," is the smallest unit of a digital image or display. It's essentially a tiny square or dot that represents a single point of color. When combined with other pixels, they form the images we see on screens, such as computer monitors, smartphones, and televisions.

I culled that from Google Gemini.

"A single point of color."

And what is a single point of color if not an iteration of light?

You are just going round in circles.

DeepSight:
I accept the existence of my spirit based on subjective experience primarily, because I subjectively experience and live it. This is not an experience that can be shared with anyone, as no one else experiences my life but me. This has nothing to do with faith - it is as real as what I live and observe daily - but, being subjective, cannot be shared, anymore than I can prove to you what I am thinking or what I dreamt last night.

plaetton:
Subjective experiences are not trustworthy. Everyone has a different interpretation of the same experience.
Even chemical substances can shape or affect your subjective experience. Likewise, religious experience is a subjective experience, not different from substance induced experiences.
Therefore, the scientific method, scientific rationalism remains the pre-eminent arbiter of our reality.

Agree ?

LordReed:
You are the one going round in circles. I said it several times the light is being selectively blocked, and in the case of a an LCD it is blocked by individual pixels. The signals change the intensity of the blockage which is what causes the colour's to change. You aren't simply seeing light, you seeing it coming through a medium and that blockage is what creates images. If light passes through a coloured semi permeable object the shadow formed will take on the colour of the object. It is those coloured shadows you are seeing. And according to you a shadow is nothing so why is this hard for you?

Captain4Jehovah:
The Creator gives man the government of the earth (from the beginning) to rule it BUT WITHOUT SCREENING Him from his affairs. But man fails to acknowledge that POWER who sustains the universe. From here man's problem begins. When we tell it to God our problem IN RIGHTEOUSNESS and SUBMISSIVENESS OF OUR WILL, He is EVER READY to make things better.
What I inferred from the OP concern is about the state of things in this country not about whether God exists or not. As religious we are, things ought to get better since we believe there is a SUPERNAL POWER that answers prayers but rather it becomes worse. This and many more concerns about the statehood of things could induce someone to forget about the presence of a HIGHER POWER called GOD. In short, prayers are answered. Our government leaders should be CONSCIOUS and in AWE of God.

Versitee:
You are a big fool. You don't have something to say, you just want to say something.

DeepSight:
Science is limited to the physical, so I cant agree.
Subjective experiences can be valid, they just may be impossible or hard to share or communicate. Surely you would not say the fact that you cannot prove what you dreamt last night means that you didnt dream it. Or the fact that you cannot prove what you are thinking in your head at a given moment means you did not think it. Or the fact that you cannot prove you are in love with Ekaete means you are not in love with her. Those are subjective but perfectly real.

plaetton:
Dreams have been proven to occur, because neural signatures for dreaming, thinking and feelings of love are unique and scientifically identifiable.
Like I said before, even the Religious experience, an experience often falsely relegated to the realm of the spiritual, is now not mapable in the brain, but itself subject to manipulation by chemical substances.
At the end of the day, measurable biochemical activity is responsible for subjective experiences we falsely deemed 'spiritual'.

DeepSight:
Are you saying that before science proved dreams occur, dreams were not real experiences?
What about thoughts and your love for Ekaete?

Does science need to validate them for them to be real?

DeepSight:
You know I will - I have honour like that. But remember I also said "or something close to that."

But you said it, and I will find it.



No, one can sing a song in one's head without any sound waves.