Re:What Happens When Virtual Reality Gets Too Real
by derefr on Monday January 04, 2016 @07:21PM
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"Gaslighting" is the popular term for this.
It's something commonly done accidentally by parents, where a parent will insist a child's version of events is incorrect because the parent remembers it differently, until the child's memory is replaced with the parent's narrative.
Side-note: people don't tend to realize that this is what the antagonist in the Star Trek TNG episode "Chain of Command" is trying to accomplish. He's not trying to make Picard "submit" by saying something he doesn't believe; he's trying to make Picard really, actually believe that there are five lights. (And in the end—despite Picard's insistence otherwise—he does.)
It's something commonly done accidentally by parents, where a parent will insist a child's version of events is incorrect because the parent remembers it differently, until the child's memory is replaced with the parent's narrative.
Side-note: people don't tend to realize that this is what the antagonist in the Star Trek TNG episode "Chain of Command" is trying to accomplish. He's not trying to make Picard "submit" by saying something he doesn't believe; he's trying to make Picard really, actually believe that there are five lights. (And in the end—despite Picard's insistence otherwise—he does.)