OldWorldRevival t1_j55f38l wrote
Reply to comment by BlessedBobo in Instead of escaping to virtual realities, what if we just made our reality as good as any virtual reality could be? by [deleted]
Interesting take.
I've been moving in the opposite direction of VR on my personal spiritual end of things in that I'm not sure that what I am looking for would be found in VR or not.
BlessedBobo t1_j55ip9r wrote
i feel you, the drive to be closer to the real and away from the fake is huge driver for humans
but it's been proven that we need profound experiences for that, no amount of knowledge or thought could lead you there, as you are still living within the patterns of your perception (look up the 9 Dot problem)
you need to first hand experience the reality or nature that you seek, in order to transform your current percecption of reality to be closer to that
if we look at something like Zen buddhism for example, it's pretty much constructed around showing you the limitations of thought and perception , bias etc but no person outthere can write down what Zen is, you can only "know i" , meaning that it's a kind of knowing that is not ony verbal
i see VR as being a possible tool to offer something even more profound than that, by actually showing people, nonverably experiences that could transform them
if wisdom is the ability to generate meaning and live a meaningful life, and wisdom is extracted from experience through insights, then we we can generate those experiences and guide people through them so they can aquire that wisdom
this has been the role of stories for centuries, but we will be able to do it on an even deeper level
instead of reading about the myth of sisyphus , you can be sisyphus and experience it , see what he went through, and generate those insights yourself
i hope you can see the incredible value in that
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