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I thought the reason he survived wasn't that he just had a huge ego, but because that universe really was just created for him.

Apparently, it's just as good to think the universe is created just for you.

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Um, wasn't that the whole point of the machine? It would strip away your self-deluding beliefs, and give you true perspective? In other words, no it isn't good enough to just think that the universe is created for you, the machine will kill you in that case. You actually need to have the universe created for you, and only in that case will you survive the experience.

I suspect many folks around here are pretty well immune to true perspective.

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