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What Happened Part 2 (2013)

The Questions
Upon entering their emails into the website, the solvers were given a set of test questions, and requested not to publish them. There were 19 questions in total, with
three different types.
The first type of question gave a statement and then a multitude of answers, which were:

True

False

Indeterminate

Meaningless

Self-Referential

Game Rule

Strange Loop

None of the above

These statements were the following:

There is no truth
What you are is more important than what you do
You cannot step into the same river twice
Observation changes the thing being observed
This sentence is false
I am the voice* inside my head (You undoubtedly just thought "I don't have
a voice inside my head." That is the voice the question is referring to)
Disregarding color blindness, any arbitrary color looks the same to all
people
If A is not true, then it must be:
1 = 0.9 recurring
People who only study material after a test do better than those who do
not study at all
Grass is only green due to a relationship between the grass, the light and
your mind
All things are true
We get hundreds of millions of sensations coming into our minds at any
moment. Our brain cannot process them all so it categorises these signals
according to our belief systems. This is why we find evidence to support
our beliefs and rarely notice evidence to the contrary.
The second type of question included an input box with a question. These questions were:

What does the word 'it' refer to in this sentence: It is dark outside?

The mathematical operation known as addition is modeled after what?

Explain, in your own words, what mathematical operation is relied upon for the security of Shamir's Secret
Sharing Scheme?
Name similarities between the concept and reality of the 'News Feed' on Facebook?
In the programming language of your choice, write a function that returns the value 3301.

The final type of question only appeared once, and it had different radio buttons to the first type. This question was:

Two people are standing by a lake. One says, "That's a lovely reflection in the water." The other says "I see
no reflection, but it's a fascinating assortment of fish, plants and rocks within the water."
Which one is lying?

Just discovered that site and... fascinated !First of all, excuse my poor English. There might be a lot
of mistakes below, but I'll do my best to be understandable. Here are the answers to those fun
questions : There is no truth"Self-Referential"This sentence is a grammatical structured formulated
by a human brain which is working in a closed-circuit.In this highly narrow context, the word "truth"
refers to an arbitrary convention.If you stay within this convention's perspective, then, ok, you could
say there IS a truth(the concept of this truth would then be something out of the closed-circuit, but
the question is : can we really escape the loop ?) What you are is more important than what you
do"Meaningless"What I am and what I'm doing are exactly the same phenomenon. You cannot
step into the same river twice"True"... from our perspective.From our (narrow) perspective, things
are changing continuously, so it's never the same river.From a wider point of view : the space-time
(and thus, movement) is an illusion.The world always stays equal to itself. It's always the same world
and always the same river. Observation changes the thing being observedTrue from our duality
perspective ('me' and 'the world').From a wider point of view, the observer and the observed are the
same entity, so, it's meaningless to affirm that the first is changing the second. This sentence is
false"Strange Loop" !But still a semantical accrobatic performance. I am the voice* inside my
head (You undoubtedly just thought "I don't have a voice inside my head." That is the voice
the question is referring to)"Self-Referential"As mentioned previously, the human brain is working
in a closed-circuit.The "voice inside my head" is a marginal epiphenomenon of my neural
mechanic.Defining "what I am" in this narrow context leads to a misconception of reality. Trying to
define "what I am" IS the only path. Great move ! If this is the answer you are looking for, there IS an
answer..Unfortunately, this was not your question. Disregarding color blindness, any arbitrary
color looks the same to all people"Indeterminate"It's not possible to determinate what another
observer is observing.The Experience is a unique "per observer" phenomenon. If A is not true,
then it must be:"None of the above".If you are not a computer, not being true doesn't mean being
false.Realities are superposed. 1 = 0.9 recurring"Game Rule", definitely !Like 1 + 1 = 2, and 2 x 3 =
7 People who only study material after a test do better than those who do not study at
all"Indeterminate"What do you call "do better" ?This is only eligible from one arbitrary
perspective. Grass is only green due to a relationship between the grass, the light and your
mind"True"... in the dualist perspective where you have 3 distincts entities.False from a wider point
of view. All things are true"True" in our self-referential illusion.From a wider point of view, the
"truthness" of something is a human brain concept.The Sun doesn't ask itself if the Moon is true. We
get hundreds of millions of sensations coming into our minds at any moment. Our brain
cannot process them all so it categorises these signals according to our belief systems. This
is why we find evidence to support our beliefs and rarely notice evidence to the
contrary."True"Vigilance is the art of capturing any entrance with the same level of priority.

Understand : disable filters. Have you experienced the Vigilance ? (also called Attentiveness and
Awareness). Two people are standing by a lake. One says, "That's a lovely reflection in the
water." The other says "I see no reflection, but it's a fascinating assortment of fish, plants and
rocks within the water." Which one is lying?"Neither"Each of them are talking about "their"
reality.The reality is the superposition of both realities (among others) What does the word 'it' refer
to in this sentence: It is dark outside?'It' refers to the world the observer lives in. The
mathematical operation known as addition is modeled after what?The addition is modeled after
the division.It's the direct consequence of a dualist mind.In the Unity perspective, the addition is
meaningless. Explain, in your own words, what mathematical operation is relied upon for the
security of Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme?In my own words : I have no idea of what it's talking
about, but I promise I will ask to someone brighter than me. Anyway : why someone would like to
have secrets ? An strong ego must be the key. Name similarities between the concept and
reality of the 'News Feed' on Facebook?News feed are snapshots of a multitude of
perspectives.It's like a fragmented reality puzzle. Fun ! Facebook is the victory of the ego which
obviously thinks it is in the center of the universe.Facebook is the ultimate ego broadcasting
system. In the programming language of your choice, write a function that returns the value
3301. // Javascript ?function getFunction3301() { var fn3301 = function() {

return 3301; } return

fn3301;}; // Unit testvar get3301 = getFunction3301();log(get3301());

Now, dear Cicada 3301 masters, here is my own problem addressed to YOU.
Show us how bright you are, and beat this one :
"I am two but I am one
If you are looking at me
You will see yourself
But I'm not a mirror
And you are not who you think"
WHO ARE WE ?