One thing that is not really noted about why possibly humans spend so much time on the internet is that they are learning to adapt to other stressors. My generation (or anyone who grew up with the internet) has a different brain than those who grew up without the internet. Children and young people now have neurons that are more evenly distributed, which makes us more fluid behaviorally. As Spinoza first noted, knowledge is the road to unification and those who have grown up with the internet have been advocating for this during their whole life without even actively knowing it.
In the virtual realm, there is no limit to what you can experience albeit behind a screen and with speakers. Still, these experiences involve a 3rd party intermediary but they can simulate so well and so close to the reality that they are seemingly unable to be dreampt about. If you sense you are experiencing the large Atlas mountains of Morocco, than how can your mind distinguish if you were there or not? Imagination relies upon a conception of something but not the full frontal view of this conception, lets say for the sake of conversation that is can conceive of 50% of the full conception. The other 50% is hidden from view, this could be the actual understanding of a concept as a sensory experience instead of reading about it for instance. But now, lets add sounds, pictures, humans, and glowing bright screen. Does this bump up our understanding of the conception from 50 to 75 percent? I think not. Personally, I see it as a mirroring of the actual experience, and sadly, it shows the limited capabilities of the human sense. Unfortunately for us as internet users we have seen the world and we are disillusioned by it. In a mirror many underlying features are left unnoticed, most notably psychological processes, so these internet forms of reality or actually obstructions of reality.
What do you think?
In the virtual realm, there is no limit to what you can experience albeit behind a screen and with speakers. Still, these experiences involve a 3rd party intermediary but they can simulate so well and so close to the reality that they are seemingly unable to be dreampt about. If you sense you are experiencing the large Atlas mountains of Morocco, than how can your mind distinguish if you were there or not? Imagination relies upon a conception of something but not the full frontal view of this conception, lets say for the sake of conversation that is can conceive of 50% of the full conception. The other 50% is hidden from view, this could be the actual understanding of a concept as a sensory experience instead of reading about it for instance. But now, lets add sounds, pictures, humans, and glowing bright screen. Does this bump up our understanding of the conception from 50 to 75 percent? I think not. Personally, I see it as a mirroring of the actual experience, and sadly, it shows the limited capabilities of the human sense. Unfortunately for us as internet users we have seen the world and we are disillusioned by it. In a mirror many underlying features are left unnoticed, most notably psychological processes, so these internet forms of reality or actually obstructions of reality.
What do you think?
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