Are we living in virtual reality?
Having read Johnson-Laird, he’d begun to wonder whether reality, as we experience it, might be a mental stage set—a representation of the world, rather than the world itself
It isn’t just that we live inside a model of the external world, Metzinger wrote. We also live inside models of our own bodies, minds, and selves.
our experience which we take to be real are actually “complex forms of virtual reality” created by our brains.
virtual embodiment. put people in another scale of body. VR is a possible medium to create consciousness. It allows expeirmenting of something other than the model we had. VR productions make a situation that you are lucid about the virtual quality. Even the event and images are fake, the emotions are real. Does real triggered emotion qualify the experience as something real? Can only be triggered by a still setting, like the violent man and demanding parent. Build extreme experience like near-death experience. Switch position, challenge the conventional idea of life.
telepresense. brain controlled aids the disables. Does it makes the disables' life virtual? is virtual realuty a mean to argument reality? or escape from reality? what is reality? something cannot be dilivered by VR.