Even if the proof was irrefutable, and it really is a fact; would you want to escape this hallucination?
Isn't the hallucination, in a sense, far more real? And what kind of implcations does this have for so-called 'virtual' spaces?
2007-02-11 10:25:20 · 6 answers · asked by -.- 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
If not an amoeba, an ant... humor me
2007-02-11 11:08:36 · update #1
a possible objection could be-- if you stimulated an organism in such a way as to produce human perception, that creature just would be a human-- an embodied machine that isn't functionally different.
It seems that there may be an assumption, that an organism with a given neuro-physical complexity cannot have experiences greater than their biology-- or we can only downgrade our perception.
But I'm not asking how or if it is possible. I'm simply saying: suppose it is the case.
2007-02-11 11:33:17 · update #2
What the hell are you talking about vern?
2007-02-11 10:30:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well considering the capabilities and what a monocellular organism is I'd stick with the hallucination.The hallucination is only real as long as it lasts .Having someone tell and convince me with fact that I'm living a hallucination no longer makes it real and I'd get or be a bit paranoid for the hallucination could end any time. Not being aware does not apply to virtual spaces for it cannot create itself -it still needs someone who "Knows" to create it and the one who knows can tell or do away with it at any time.
2007-02-11 18:42:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I get your point. Of course I would prefer the hallucination (and who's to say that hallucinations are any less valid than the experiences we call reality). But if I'm a one-celled organism capable of having hallucinations, I still have to perform the basic tasks of living (like eating for example), or else I'll die. So, the implications for virtual spaces, I think, are that you can't actually "live" in a virtual space if you have a physical existence somewhere else. You still have to attend to those physical needs to stay alive.
2007-02-11 21:14:57 · answer #3 · answered by c'mon, cliffy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This hallucination would then be far more valuable then my "real" existence. So in a way, breaking the hallucination would mean death for me. So I would want to continue living the hallucination.
2007-02-11 19:03:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
monocellular organism having a hallucination?
2007-02-11 19:03:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
explain to me how a monocellular organism would have a hallucination.
2007-02-11 19:05:47 · answer #6 · answered by Sophist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋