[NewYorker]Are we already living in a Virtual Reality? (semi-deep thought article)

[VirtualLarry]

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/02/are-we-already-living-in-virtual-reality

Some really deep ideas here, on consciousness and reality.

 

[skull]

Like how do we know we don't see the world completely different man? You were taught thats blue and I was taught thats blue but maybe I see blue as some trippy ass shit and you see it like some soccer mom.

 

[purbeast0]

No we aren't.

And cliffs?

 

[luv2liv]

cliffs please. that thing is long!

 

[Captante]

Going to go with no.

 

[slayer202]

I'm going to listen. I'll report back

 

[DietDrThunder]

You are all just a figment of my imagination, just like this post.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Well, this guy keeps trying to friend me on RedneckFacebuk

 

[nakedfrog]

The article title isn't really meant in the way this question is typically posed, as in "are we in a computer simulation?"

 

[slayer202]

The article title isn't really meant in the way this question is typically posed, as in "are we in a computer simulation?"

I'm about 2/3rds of the way through and that's what it seems like. It's more like the way we think and the way our brains/bodies work and interact with the world are similar to a virtual reality system. I have to finish listening before commenting further

 

[ImpulsE69]

One important thing they left out of that article is what kind of drugs he was on to 'enlighten his mind'.

 

[slayer202]

So the article is kind of dumb imo. Or at least obvious. There was an interesting part about a VR experiment where the writer entered a reality where he was sitting with Freud and he switched back and forth from his body to Freud's and had a conversation with himself. The article is discussing two topics and the Virtual reality as a means of altering our minds was the more interesting one. I'd like to read more about that