A video game is not a reality. It’s a past time. Watching a television show, reading a book or making some art is also not an alternate reality. You’re still in the same place.
When playing Super Mario Bros I ignore my job, and vice-versa. That's two realities, oblivious to each other. What separates them?
Submitted 11 months ago by dope@lemm.ee to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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B1ackmsth@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
dope@lemm.ee 11 months ago
You have an avatar. You have a goal. You do stuff and try to get stuff and try to avoid stuff… You feel real emotions. That sure sounds like a reality.
Meho_Nohome@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
You do all those things in your dreams. Do you believe dreams are reality?
PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 11 months ago
You do.
dope@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Nice.
Ok. What is this method by which I travel from one reality to another, leaving one and entering another?
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Isn’t this attention? Essentially you give something ‘life’ by paying attention to it (I’m rusty but I think that’s strictly a relative phenomenon, of course it doesn’t live, etc. I think this is something in philosophy?)
dustyData@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Consciousness. Reality(ies) doesn’t actually exists out there¹. They are the construct that you form and manipulate inside your head. So, when you choose, or are compelled by senses, to manipulate a different set of constructs, then you’ve changed realities. This is also why we say that different individuals and groups of individuals live different subjective and social realities.
1: We have reasons to infer and believe that it actually does but ontologically speaking, it might as well don’t.
PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 11 months ago
I mean, I work and play Dota 2, but I don’t do them at the same time ever.
After working, my method is plugging my peripherals into my desktop, and firing it up while my work laptop shuts down. (thx for reminding me that I should look at KVM switches for Black Friday…)