kuuuuul20 (June 12, 2009 at 1:22 am)

youtoube seems to have become fools paradise..

yuradisman (June 1, 2009 at 9:43 pm)

Kabbalah Revealed series goes into this question well.

shibbolethed (May 29, 2009 at 9:29 am)

this video, together with it's fun&meditative circumnavigation of comments, loosened the tangles of my night's ontological skein tonight. and for that i am grateful...the best author to treat this question in my experience is Nathaniel Hawthorne, in his short stories (especially Molineux, wives of the dead, Wakefield, young goodman Brown,&the ambitious guest). Thoreau in Walden is another good source, and Gibran in the Prophet. Also check out Plato's Cave of course, where it all started

shibbolethed (May 29, 2009 at 9:11 am)

what if one didn't know one was being programmed, or,, what if one desires deprogramming....

shibbolethed (May 29, 2009 at 9:10 am)

Plato said that in his essay "the cave" long long before the matrix, tho neither work says this is all "just an illusion". check out John Partidge's amazing essay "Plato's Cave and the Matrix", it's on the matix's official website under essays. Also published in a book called "philosophy and the matrix" out of the UC Press. really tho, read Plato first.... then Descartes

michaeljorden (April 20, 2009 at 7:29 pm)

you suck. i hate you so much.

boycosmic (April 16, 2009 at 12:17 pm)

It is impossible for anything to exist outside of 'reality'. So the answer is: yes, we are producing 'reality' on Youtube. If something exists, it is 'real'. "I think, therefore I am" Please bear in mind that the term 'real' is a loaded term and in this sense we should be attempting to define or redefine the terminology of the discourse.

jaalul (March 14, 2009 at 10:29 am)

uploading on youtube does creat reality.creativeness is what reality is, along with potential actions. this comes from consciousness. if nobody shared there thoughts or ideas in the past, we would not see the world as we do today, the world that ultimately filters as reality. the second you shared with another individual something from your own mind, you are adding another piece to that persons infinite reality puzzle. agreed or disagreed, you have given pontial reality.

horuzrizing (January 5, 2009 at 3:06 am)

I thought that's what marketing was for--creating "reality". Existence is an ever-expanding system of systems? Existence is information? Information as host,as parysite, manipulator, manipulated--hungry for info. Existence is cyclic, verb, evolutionary. Create--maybe. Change--for sure. In and out, left and right, photo negative and print positive. Did I create this comment, or did R. Dawkins and Wallace Black Elk? I'm sorry. What was the question?

wima13 (January 2, 2009 at 9:28 am)

Mmmmm, Ritz crackers........

rhov233 (December 3, 2008 at 7:14 am)

Resistance is futile! We will assimilate you!

Heissenburger (November 20, 2008 at 3:51 pm)

You are effectively talking to me via your "this" (web-cam, another mediator besides air) .A "non-essentialist" accepts that reality is (at least partially) reflexive, so you are (co-)creating reality, not just being a passive observer. Via YouTube, you can make new friends even across the globe, and/but there is nothing to stop your usual friends from seeing what a freak you can be on YouTube. 'Virtual' reality is a part of 'real' reality.