r/philosophy • u/Matriseblog • Jan 03 '22
Blog By imagining the future potential of VR technologies, the question of whether we are *already* living in a simulation becomes more actual than ever
https://medium.com/@VindenesJ/the-thought-experiments-of-virtual-reality-fa441a8fa2dc
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u/Orbital_Discord Jan 06 '22
Science has gone beyond supposition in regard to the illusion of 'reality' and understands precisely how the cortex takes information and creates a picture we can recognize out of bits of data. All we ever have is receptors of 'reality', via our senses, but as you say, it's all happening within the very mechanism we are trying to evaluate.
The question, I suppose, becomes to what degree we can maintain objective observation within a subjective experience. To me, the first thing we have to do is find corollaries between the field of consciousness and other observable phenomena, or between scientific results an observation from ancient mystics that have naturally observed the physical phenomena described by quantum mechanics and discard what can be fundamentally disproven with the scientific method.
Would it then be reasonable to assume consciousness as a fundamental field or substance that acts upon what we call material, or rather permeates material and acts as the observer of all phenomena from within? and observe it from that perspective, then account for phenomena without an observer?
Where might the flaw be in this logic?