Re:Virtual Reality Poses the Same Riddles as the Cosmic Mult...
by iainmerrick on Saturday March 11, 2017 @02:13PM
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What's amazing to me is that this question of a simulated reality would not have even been possible to comprehend 150 years ago.
I don't think you're giving enough credit to thinkers of the past. They didn't have the technology that lets us play with some of these ideas more directly, but they were still very capable of thinking through the philosophical ramifications. Descartes' Meditations comes to mind: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes-epistemology/#3...
Re:Virtual Reality Poses the Same Riddles as the Cosmic Mult...
by diminish on Saturday March 11, 2017 @02:47PM
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I remember in one Plato dialogue a reference to the dream in a dream in a .. concept. I m sure it goes back to earlier religious thoughts too especially Asian ones.
I don't think you're giving enough credit to thinkers of the past. They didn't have the technology that lets us play with some of these ideas more directly, but they were still very capable of thinking through the philosophical ramifications. Descartes' Meditations comes to mind: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes-epistemology/#3...