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That's what your player character in an action video game "thinks". If I get killed, I won't care anymore, because there would be nothing left of me. Guess wha
by guard-of-terra 13y ago
That's what your player character in an action video game "thinks". If I get killed, I won't care anymore, because there would be nothing left of me.
Guess what, his consciousness is you and you will close the game and walk away. In a consciousness dimension your character can't even imagine.
This is absolutely unrooted parable, except that consciousness remains a mystery. What does it hide? We don't know.
- seiji 13y agoVideo game characters aren't consciously autonomous though. There's always the reductive argument of "Well, we could be running in a computer simulation and when you die here you're perfectly recreated in another simulated universe." But, we're not.
- lmm 13y ago>Video game characters aren't consciously autonomous though. What distinction are you claiming exists between your own subjective experience and that of a video game character? (follow-up question: why do you believe this?)