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Re:90% of Waking Hours Spent Staring at Glowing Rectangles (... by dannyw on Sunday December 27, 2020 @11:05PM (#25556582)
We have an amazingly beautiful world, from lush forests to deep blue oceans, with billions of wonderful humans, yet we choose to spend the vast majority of time on a virtual world we’ve created.
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Re:90% of Waking Hours Spent Staring at Glowing Rectangles (... by cle on Monday December 28, 2020 @10:18PM (#25566374)
That’s how you’ve interpreted the light that has bounced onto your retina.

Ultimately we all live in the virtual worlds we create in our minds through interpreting our senses, it’s not immediately obvious to me why I should generally prefer one over the other.

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Re:90% of Waking Hours Spent Staring at Glowing Rectangles (... by polishdude20 on Monday December 28, 2020 @02:24AM (#25557419)
Technically, that virtual world is still part of this world. Wonderful humans created those virtual worlds where you can probably find more wonderful humans.
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