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Re:What happens when your AI girlfriend dies? by stuartjohnson12 on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @09:19AM (#38445944)
From the perspective of a single person, every other person is just an agent. The only thing distinguishing delusion from reality is how convincing and sustained the delusion is. If the delusion is indefinite and perfectly convincing throughout, it is reality. What I experience as blue doesn't really exist. The wavelengths exist, but the sensory experience is illusion and highly artificial.
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Re:What happens when your AI girlfriend dies? by sebastianconcpt on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @10:17AM (#38446592)
You are using a definition of reality that actually belongs to perceived reality. For that thinking you are proposing, every hallucination is indistinguishable from reality. Is the perfect self-delusion that doesn't need any reality-checks because all you demand is hallucinated-checks to claim is real. But it's not. By the way, notice that thinking is the most fertile ground for lots of ideologies to grow and flourish to the point of anima possession.
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Re:What happens when your AI girlfriend dies? by RandomLensman on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @09:20AM (#38445961)
The reality can just hit you over the head, the delusion cannot.
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Re:What happens when your AI girlfriend dies? by sebastianconcpt on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @10:16AM (#38446582)
Precisely. Reality-checks are not equivalent to hallucination-checks.
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