Why do we dream? I think it is because the brain is a dreaming machine. Waking life is merely a dream kept roughly in sync with reality through clues passed in from the senses.
Jason On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 4:29 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi <[email protected]> wrote: > I have found a nice paper > > Jan Westerhoff, What it Means to Live in a Virtual World Generated by Our > Brain, Erkenntnis (2016) 81:507–528 > > The author considers the logical consequences from the theory that the > brain generates a virtual world. Below is how Richard Dawkins describes the > theory in his book Unweaving the Rainbow > > "We move through a virtual world of our own brains’ making. Our > constructed models of rocks and of trees are a part of the environment in > which we animals live, no less than the real rocks and trees that they > represent." > > "There is an easy way to demonstrate that the brain works as a > sophisticated virtual reality computer. First, look about you by moving > your eyes. As you swivel your eyes, the images on your retinas move as if > you were in an earthquake. But you don’t see an earthquake. To you, the > scene seems as steady as a rock. I am leading up, of course, to saying that > the virtual model in your brain is constructed to remain steady." > > Other proponents of the theory are Thomas Metzinger and Steven Lehar. > > Westerhoff offers three accounts for such a theory: strong, weak and > irrealism. They differ from each other on the account of an external world. > > The strong account implies a structural correspondence between the virtual > and external world. The week account just says that the external world > exists but one can add almost nothing to this end. > > Irrealism on the other hand states the the external world is a part of the > virtual world. I guess that Bruno's theory is close to irrealism. > > Evgeny > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
