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Originally posted by filtherton
There is a difference between creating a perception and creating a universe. I can "perceive" that everybody i interact with on the tfp is actually a really advanced a.i. program. That doesn't mean that you all are in reality computer programs. I can also "destroy the world" when i go to sleep, but i'm pretty sure that the world still exists for my more nocturnal friends. I think that that perspective on reality leads only to crazy mumbling and unshaven wandering through downtown america.
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You're talking about the difference between objective reality and subjective reality. This is an age-old topic of discussion that everyone from Spinoza to Kant to Nietzsche covered. If there is an objective reality, I argue that none of us have any access to it. Like the "Veil of Maya" behind which all that is real exists. We have our own biological systems of perception as well as our mental constructs and creative links that we make. In the end it is all metaphors and at least one step removed from "objective reality".