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A computer screen is real. The images are symbolic of non real things, but the images are real. And especially to the point, since you are (controversially) cl

• coldtea 7y ago
  >A computer screen is real Which is neither here, nor there. >The images are symbolic of non real things, but the images are real. They are still not tied to touch, smell, sense of being in place, temperature, wind, and several other things. In fact they can actively fight your environmental cues. E.g. you can watch a man drink coffee in the African heat on your screen while sitting in a room with no smell of coffee at all while freezing cold. The real world intermix of sensory inputs tied to each environment work together and help make the scene, and eventually the memory, even more concrete. >it's incoherent to claim that a visual artwork is less memorable than whatever the art represents. Would you remember more being in a sea with huge waves rocking you, or having seen some artwork of such a scene? Do you remember better a car accident you had, or pictures of random car accidents presented to you?