Oscar Bazaldua
These thought experiments make me really excited about mass adoption of VR.
That said... I'm really bummed that right now your only choice for a VR is Meta. (Sorry Valve, the index is too geek for normal people)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/02/are-we-already-living-in-virtual-reality
Are We Already Living in Virtual Reality?

Joshua Rothman reports on virtual-embodiment technology, which is challenging our understanding of who and what we are.

The New Yorker
Dec 21, 2022 at 4:44pmMammoth
Show threadOscar BazalduaDec 21, 2022

The idea that with mass adoption of VR we might open our minds to a different vision of the self. A self not constrained by our bodies. Now that is exciting.

At first I rejected that article cause I was thinking "here comes another guy who tells us we live in a simulation" but no, these guys are actually thinking this deep and straight. What if our self is a mental model? That doesn't discard reality but transforms it. That opens up discussions not relegates everything to nihilism.