Golan, on 19 Jun 2009, 18:13, said:
AJ, on 19 Jun 2009, 17:02, said:
CommanderJB, on 19 Jun 2009, 16:46, said:
I don't believe there will ever be any way to tell, unless a Morpheus comes along and starts freeing us. It's shame as I'm a curious kinda bloke () but to be fair, if we were ever to probe far enough to see if everything is really 'real'. we'd probably be scared to death what we find if it's not a good thing.
Let's assume you somehow did manage to tear down the walls of what we perceive as reality and take a look behind, or some black guy with cool shades and long coat shows you the door to what lays behind... how could you ever that this "new" reality isn't just a dream/artificial either?
You couldn't in any way, shape or form. There is no way to prove disprove any of this, and it is a massive debate amongst some of the philosophy students that I know I'm just suggesting, that should we ever reach out and meet the real world (no matter how this would be proved or not), a lot of people would be scared, and quite likely retreat to what they knew, as a virtual reality, while virtual, is still what people know as reality - not everyone will want to leave it for something completely different.