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The brain does have the resources to do so, actually. This is variously called dreaming, psychosis, or similar.
by SamoyedFurFluff 5y ago
The brain does have the resources to do so, actually. This is variously called dreaming, psychosis, or similar.
- GoblinSlayer 5y agoDreaming is a limited simulation, not on the level of reality.
- malermeister 5y agoHow do you know? We haven't even established what reality is or whether it exists. For all you know, this entire argument could be a figment of your imagination and so could your perception of the rest of reality.
- GoblinSlayer 5y agoWe established the magnitude of the avogadro number, objects so complex have no chance to fully fit in imagination.
- malermeister 5y agoSo you're saying the fact that your imagination is limited is proof? I believe in myself more than that, sorry. [also again, how do you know the Avogadro constant is real?]
- GoblinSlayer 5y agoBeliefs have no effect on reality, sorry. Not sure what you mean by real there, the Avogadro number expresses precision at which you need to simulate reality to get something believable and a brain simply isn't big enough for this in purely quantitative terms.
- malermeister 5y agoBeliefs are reality. > a brain simply isn't big enough for this in purely quantitative terms [quotation needed]. And again, what if all of this, avogadro numbers, hacker news, your conception of reality all were a hallucination? How would you know? How can you definitely prove it is not?
- GoblinSlayer 5y agoHallucination with such details is not a mere hallucination, but a conspiracy. If the conspiracy is flawless, it's meaningless to differentiate it from reality, it's literally precise equivalence. It's a more complex theory than realism too.