A video game is not a reality. It’s a past time. Watching a television show, reading a book or making some art is also not an alternate reality. You’re still in the same place.
You have an avatar. You have a goal. You do stuff and try to get stuff and try to avoid stuff… You feel real emotions. That sure sounds like a reality.
You do all those things in your dreams. Do you believe dreams are reality?
Of course not. It’s just a dream.
Except when I’m in the dream. Then it seems like reality.
So it depends on where I’m standing.
You do.
Nice.
Ok. What is this method by which I travel from one reality to another?
I mean, I work and play Dota 2, but I don’t do them at the same time ever.
After working, my method is plugging my peripherals into my desktop, and firing it up while my work laptop shuts down. (thx for reminding me that I should look at KVM switches for Black Friday…)
Isn’t this attention? Essentially you give something ‘life’ by paying attention to it (I’m rusty but I think that’s strictly a relative phenomenon, of course it doesn’t live, etc. I think this is something in philosophy?)
“it’s an attention” thing sounds right to me too. Shift of attention = shift of reality. In the small as well as the large.
