randomc Posted August 7, 2016 Share Posted August 7, 2016 The interactive surveillance operation following you around while you're homeless is somehow able to produce a high-pitched ringing sound in your ears. You are convinced it isn't tinnitus, and you've conluded that the purpose of it is either some form of emotional or other direct manipulation, or indirect manipulation, i.e. just messing you up by getting you to think about it. This morning, you played a song on the piano and then went to the park and looked at some swans, then googled whether swans could fly or not. You sit down to watch TV, the same song you played eariler is being used in a trailer for a documetary about kakapo's (flightless parrots). Do you conclude a) stuff is being inserted into the TV schedule, b) the broadcast is private and made and delivered just for you, c) that it's the regular schedule and you are being massively directly manipulated such that your actions fit some narrative? What sort of logical problem is this? What other possibilties might there be than the three i've given? You've already elliminated the possibility that you're nuts and it's coincidence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StringJunky Posted August 7, 2016 Share Posted August 7, 2016 The interactive surveillance operation following you around while you're homeless is somehow able to produce a high-pitched ringing sound in your ears. You are convinced it isn't tinnitus, and you've conluded that the purpose of it is either some form of emotional or other direct manipulation, or indirect manipulation, i.e. just messing you up by getting you to think about it. This morning, you played a song on the piano and then went to the park and looked at some swans, then googled whether swans could fly or not. You sit down to watch TV, the same song you played eariler is being used in a trailer for a documetary about kakapo's (flightless parrots). Do you conclude a) stuff is being inserted into the TV schedule, b) the broadcast is private and made and delivered just for you, c) that it's the regular schedule and you are being massively directly manipulated such that your actions fit some narrative? What sort of logical problem is this? What other possibilties might there be than the three i've given? You've already elliminated the possibility that you're nuts and it's coincidence. Given that the things are so disparate I would conclude that it's a paranoid episode. If it was all on the internet, even across different devices, I would think manipulation for advertising purposes. It is rather unnerving to buy something off Amazon.say, then see adverts advertising the very things you've bought on a banner in SFN! I know how to stop it but I can't be bothered anymore.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Function Posted August 7, 2016 Share Posted August 7, 2016 (edited) You've already elliminated the possibility that you're nuts and it's coincidence. Why so? I'm not keen to call people "nuts" (rather than calling them susceptible to having and expressing disrupted thought patterns), but let's focus on that last one: why has your character ruled out the possibility of being it a set of randomly arranged events? It is rather unnerving to buy something off Amazon.say, then see adverts advertising the very things you've bought on a banner in SFN! I know how to stop it but I can't be bothered anymore.. Tbh, cookies have given me lots of thoughts of "oh that's beautiful, might buy it someday" after I visited an online webshop, and I can't say I don't like it Edited August 7, 2016 by Function Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imatfaal Posted August 7, 2016 Share Posted August 7, 2016 ! Moderator Note Thread Locked. This is really not philosophy. And it seems that it is either a conspiracy theory or a web of self-delusion verging on paranoia; neither are fitting topics for a science forum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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