Post by moviemouth on Jan 23, 2022 19:52:20 GMT
Are you familiar with solipsism?
There is only one thing each person can know for certain, and that is that they exist. Everything else is induction, including whether or not any other minds exist besides yours.
I believe there is a treshold of exposure AND other elements though when reached/combined the brain "gives up/switches off/starts confusing the two". I would love to know what that combination is and how far we are from it now et the onset of virtual reality and how do we hold on to it once virtual reality is the norm.
And… do we WANT TO hold on to it. Thats maybe even bigger question for me.
I would also like to understand how come we are able to develop what feels like a real emotion for a fictitious character. I realize its common but would love to understand the dynamics behind it. We can apply all the critical thinking we want but we still from time to time and some more than others fall in love (or hate) a completely fictitious character. To the point of pining after them, missing them, yearning for them or even suffering from withdrawal. Why does our brain allow that? And how is it different than loving God? Our ability to love God is the same as loving Tyrion Lannister. Except we (some of us) believe God exists because.. why? We have no evidence, inductive reasoning doesnt really work here.. is it because.. external authorities told us? And many other people believe it too?
So its: prefrontal cortex, critical thinking/inductive reasionin AND external validation that makes for the right formula?
Do we want to hold onto what is real? That depends on the person, but as someone who is a skeptic it is extremely important to me and it needs to be hold onto at all costs imo. The worse you are at distinguishing reality from non-reality the more likely it is you will believe harmful ideas and the easier it will be for you to get manipulated by someone. Cult leaders, con artists, sociopaths, narcissists etc. rely on people's poor critical thinking skills to get what they want and to take advantage of people.
I don't care what is comforting, I care about what is real and true. There is subjective and objective and we need to get as close to objective reality as we can. I dislike the idea of VR because it is an illusion posing as reality. Movies are an illusion too, but you don't live in a movie.