What if a baby is fed a virtual reality from the day it was born? Assume that (as in the movie) the sensory inputs are rich enough that if we were to experience it, we would be hard pressed to detect that it was a virtual reality.
If the baby grows up in a virtual world, complete with rich social interaction, then why wouldn't she still develop a sense of personhood? What is it about the source of the sensory data that prohibits personhood from developing? Terren On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Craig Weinberg <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 31, 2:52 pm, Terren Suydam <[email protected]> wrote: >> Craig, >> >> The movie The Matrix is essentially about comp. What is it about that >> movie's premise that seems impossible to you? > > It's possible to simulate a world for a person but it is not possible > to simulate the sense of being a person. I have no problem with full > sensory substitution, but I understand that there cannot be a > replacement for sense itself. Something real and physical ultimately > has to interpret anything to give it sense, otherwise it is non-sense. > A program is real in a mind, and real in software, but unless the > software is enacted literally on a physical machine or organism at the > bottom level, there is no reality. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
