Cognisant
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Over the last couple of decades and particularly in the last few years people have been increasingly digitizing the world, recording as much as possible, building ever more complex and expansive simulations, even our cultures are increasingly digital.
It seems inevitable that we will forgo reality for a "superior" virtual equivalent, especially as improving technology makes these virtual realities ever more real to our senses, but could a seemingly perfect simulation really be better than reality?
Indeed does a virtual paradise even need to be realistic?
If anime is anything to go by we seem to have ideals that exceed what's physically possible, the impossibly large eyes of many characters for instance.
It seems inevitable that we will forgo reality for a "superior" virtual equivalent, especially as improving technology makes these virtual realities ever more real to our senses, but could a seemingly perfect simulation really be better than reality?
Indeed does a virtual paradise even need to be realistic?
If anime is anything to go by we seem to have ideals that exceed what's physically possible, the impossibly large eyes of many characters for instance.