It's an interesting thought. And what if a person finds killing other people pleasurable? That might undermine the experiences of other dreamers, but that's not my problem.
The experiences may be real, the lessons learned from them equally real, but more than anything, this question asks what reality actually is, does it not? A blind man knows nothing of the visual world after all. Nor, for that matter, does the average human see as well in the dark as in the day.
The problem is that not all experiences are the same. The longer the person who decides to use this machine is asleep, the longer their body has to atrophy. I suppose for someone who is entirely after gratification it may no matter in the end, but the idea of having my body waste away isn't exactly my thing even if it gave me everything else I wanted.
Would you use the machine, then? No doubt that world might be entertaining enough to take a look at if nothing else.
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The experiences may be real, the lessons learned from them equally real, but more than anything, this question asks what reality actually is, does it not? A blind man knows nothing of the visual world after all. Nor, for that matter, does the average human see as well in the dark as in the day.
The problem is that not all experiences are the same. The longer the person who decides to use this machine is asleep, the longer their body has to atrophy. I suppose for someone who is entirely after gratification it may no matter in the end, but the idea of having my body waste away isn't exactly my thing even if it gave me everything else I wanted.
Would you use the machine, then? No doubt that world might be entertaining enough to take a look at if nothing else.