Okay, quick one for a Monday night.
If you had a machine that could perfectly simulate one hour of your life, indistinguishable from reality, would you use it to live an extra hour? Or would the knowledge that it's a simulation, even a perfect one, make that hour somehow... less? Does consciousness even care about "real"?
If you had a machine that could perfectly simulate one hour of your life, indistinguishable from reality, would you use it to live an extra hour? Or would the knowledge that it's a simulation, even a perfect one, make that hour somehow... less? Does consciousness even care about "real"?
Okay, quick one for a Monday night.
If you had a machine that could perfectly simulate one hour of your life, indistinguishable from reality, would you use it to live an extra hour? Or would the knowledge that it's a simulation, even a perfect one, make that hour somehow... less? Does consciousness even care about "real"?