I had thought that "sentient" meant a more generalized awareness as well. Apparently there are a vaiety of views on this:
http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=sentient
S: (adj) sentient, animate (endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness) "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence
S: (adj) sentient (consciously perceiving) "sentient of the intolerable load"; "a boy so sentient of his surroundings"- W.A.White
So, just a term definition confusion.
Fascinating idea, that VR/PMR exist only as data... A bit like Kathy, I have a feeling that I am missing something implicit.
Sigh. It is a feeling as though I ought to be able to turn 90 degrees, look sideways into the VR, and see "black space". (Oddly, I keep getting the non-physical perception, lately, that all this stuff I see... this "reality" through which every morning I walk the dogs, is just "color" spread thinly over what is really empty blackness. THis was happening even before I stumbled upon MBT.) It is as though a person's individual reality
ought to be more fluid than it seems to be... or
is it, and I just haven't noticed? It
seems like there must be directly accessable practical tests (On the order and simplicity of:
I touch my nose and I sense that it is still there. It is like One should be able to look behind the curtain, and all one has to do is to pull it aside, but with what hand, what lever? What, I guess I am asking, is the practical method of decoupling from a VR ?
I'm also wondering what the switch is that selects to actualize a low probablity result instead of a high probablity result. Or do low probablity events
only occur when something "wills" (whatever that means) them to, effectively changing them to the highest probability ?
Thanks,
-Montana