Fun philosophical hypothetical question anyone?

Question

Would you rather...

Live an artificial, virtual reality life completely of your choosing? (this means never being able to leave the virtual life and having complete knowledge that you were in a virtual world the whole time)

OR

Live your current real life?

Answer 1

The artificial life of my choosing sounds VERY tempting...but I would rather live my current real life...actually ask me again in a few years...

Answer 2

I assume in virtual reality you could bring your dog or cat. You'd have the controller and could choose the channels. Actually, to a certain extent we can do that now. We are not our personality, thoughts or feelings, but only have them. From this vantage point I can have the personality of a cartoon penguin, if I want to, and I do. Just call me Pengy for short. If you focus on the right hemisphere of the brain with your intuition and other techniques, like using only positive descriptive words instead of negative judgmental ones, you only see a whole new positive personality and reality. If you only look at negatives than that is your reality and worry you only joy except when you peep the right brain whenever you do. Enough said.

Answer 3

I would rather live my real life. even though a virtual life of my own choosing sounds tempting it would be false, which would make it not worth it. I would rather work for the life I want in reality.

Answer 4

My life without hesitation.

I would rather live with and in reality any day, even with the disappointment, pain and sorrow that comes along occasionally.

Anything else would be like taking a ride through life. Fun at the start but soon becomes boring, than turns into miserable mundaneness.

Answer 5

How do you validate your "real life" is also not virtual? Given the right nerve signals coming in from our senses, how would we tell the difference?

And by adding the "you know it is always virtual" clause you take out all the fun IMO.

Answer 6

i will live the current life. but if i can choose a virtual life and provided the computer on which it was running was glitch free and assured power supply, and also provided i donot know i am living a virtual life i will choose it over the real life.

Answer 7

My life. Living a virtual life of my choosing wold mean I would always know everything about my little world. Boring.

Answer 8

darn, thats a great question.id be really tempted to go for the virtual reality. for the most part, the best part of my life is when im dreaming, anyway. living my dreams, even in virtual reality , yeh, i think id go for it. id need time to find another home for my dog, to say goodbye to my few friends etc. / after sleeping on it, i have to change my mind. my real life, flawed as it is, is my dog's life too. we've been together two years, since he was one month old. but thanks for asking.. it really made me rethink my life, and what im gonna do about it.

Answer 9

I love being alone because I can think uninterrupted. When I'm around a lot of people I tend to ignore everyone. It's different when I'm with a few friends. When I'm around..let's say 4 or less people that I like (real friends because it takes me a long time to like someone), I can have a lot of fun. When I'm totally alone I sing (terribly) and I dance (terribly), of course. My alone time is also spent thinking, like I said. I make up stories, I wonder about a range of topics (my thoughts are..spoken. in a mix of accented english, broken spanish and broken japanese), I play music in my head. Sounds, words and numbers. That's what my mind is full of.

Answer 10

Given current reality, I'd go virtual and have much more fun.