Virtual philosophy - Lecture summary 4

The concept of what is real and how we can identify and define these topics has always been very arguable. Concepts over concepts such as if all that a brain can capture is real then how about the techniques that can be achieved by the movie if possible Johnny mnemonic who sheds his memory of his child hood to carry some information that he does not know. If it is possible to manipulate memories then a person in a state of manipulated behaviour could never identify what a real thing is he just accepts that what is fed in his memory is real. The matrix shows that all of our lives we have been manipulated and have been living in a virtual world, by the machines for getting energy from us so since the beginning to the end of a human’s life s/he is kept in this world assuming to be real. The third man perspective is very important in these issues where is it going and how it can be judged can be decided by a person who is watching from a place that does not involve him. Deliberate acceptance is the only way to solve these issues it is more of a feeling that has power over such concepts.

Few seconds of involvement in a horror movie or an interesting game like Doom would make us forget that we exist in the current physical world that we have accepted before starting the game. When the game or the movie begins our involvement is so much that we consider it to be real, that is our feelings tend to react to the events that are going on the screen. Such small events could make us forget our existence for a while. All that we need to be ready is for we should be able to defend in a situation of what would happen in the future when a technology of say a realistic virtual world or adding and deleting of memories comes into existence. The concept the difference of real and virtuality should have been able to be identified then.