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Explain the virtual simulation theory of consciousness.
“Consciousness is a way around pure chance by developing an internalized map of probabilities which can be visualized internally without having to be outsourced prematurely”. The need to ask questions about the world and its inhabitants has nothing to do with reality, but four our evolutionary needs; the brain and its functions and chemical processes allows us to virtually simulate our actions and the outcomes. This is important because being able to virtually simulate an instance before actually partaking in that instance, keeps us alive. “And therein lies its Darwinian advantage, since most of our awareness is in our head it doesn’t have to face the very real and empirical and deathly consequences of being without. Being without tends to end up dead”.
However, the virtual simulation theory of consciousness causes an uprising between what is “truthful or accurate” because every person’s virtual simulations vary due to their differences in upbringing and past experiences. Moreover, this bring me to a quote in “Is The Universe An App”, “So this issue of inner experiences as proof of a guru’s status raises a very important epistemological question: how do we know that what we perceive in mystical practices is truthful or accurate”.
Explain the virtual simulation theory of consciousness.
“Consciousness is a way around pure chance by developing an internalized map of probabilities which can be visualized internally without having to be outsourced prematurely”. The need to ask questions about the world and its inhabitants has nothing to do with reality, but four our evolutionary needs; the brain and its functions and chemical processes allows us to virtually simulate our actions and the outcomes. This is important because being able to virtually simulate an instance before actually partaking in that instance, keeps us alive. “And therein lies its Darwinian advantage, since most of our awareness is in our head it doesn’t have to face the very real and empirical and deathly consequences of being without. Being without tends to end up dead”.
However, the virtual simulation theory of consciousness causes an uprising between what is “truthful or accurate” because every person’s virtual simulations vary due to their differences in upbringing and past experiences. Moreover, this bring me to a quote in “Is The Universe An App”, “So this issue of inner experiences as proof of a guru’s status raises a very important epistemological question: how do we know that what we perceive in mystical practices is truthful or accurate”.