Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-31526827-20190906011835/@comment-34676248-20190907141935

SatanLovesJello wrote: @SeedSpeed:

I've experienced firsthand some of the incredible innovations that VR has to offer. I've engaged with computer systems and software so secretive, powerful and expensive that it will never be available to the public. (And not because of my own merit or achievements, but because I have a brother that is fortunate enough to be in a situation where he can share) But you're not seeing the forest for the trees...

There cannot and will not ever be a true symbiosis between man and machine. PERIOD.

I can make this argument because there is one thing that hardware and software can never do. Emote.

Sure, they could simulate it. However, in a nutshell, the most influential aspect of an experience is neither through the physical sensations nor the body's observations. It is the awareness that the experience is truly reality versus a reality that is simulated. That awareness generates emotion.

The only exception would be a "Matrix" type reality, one in which a person was conceived and and born into virtual reality. And, yes there is the infinitesimal potential for the possibility, but as humans, we would never allow such a thing to occur. (I hope...)

SLJ:"There cannot and will not ever be a true symbiosis between man and machine. PERIOD.

I can make this argument because there is one thing that hardware and software can never do. Emote."

"And, yes there is the infinitesimal potential for the possibility, but as humans, we would never allow such a thing to occur. (I hope...)"

This is much a philosophical subject. I see couple of moments here.

Take away gadget from people, and they will experience real symptoms of anxiety.

Social part...one example: people now go to coffee, spend time sitting with each other, but everyone looking at it's own device. Then they leave a bar. How ridiculous is that?

Technology, and people relationship with it changes human behavior big way. So it's not so important how much will machine be able to do. It's more how will human relate to that.

There is one scary real video I saw of people in China. Baby on the floor hitting with its head into a floor, while parents are on a mobile device. How scary is that? You don't need a machine for that, only lack of human.

I personally am sceptical about humans. To be responsible, you have to head some level of awareness. I don't think that's the case. People as species can't agree to work for the good of our species, and our planet. The easiest way to see it is to look politics.

Moral, and ethics is more and more marginal, unwanted subject.

Emotions. Maybe machine can't have them, but human can definitely be without them. That's pretty scary, but that's how it is. Human can be desensitized.