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Originally Posted by Gem
I think what humanity has been doing is progressively becoming more and more 'virtual'.
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Yes. 'Reality' ever recedes as knowledge pursues it, and as knowledge strives to reach it, ironically, we become increasingly 'virtual' beings. Soon enough cyberspace will provide, not a virtual world, but an alternative reality, in the sense that what we consider to be 'the real world' is itself not 'real'.
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Bingo! You captured the essence of this perfectly Gem! :)
There is a funny qualifier to this though... we are still in a body with a genetic memory, we still need to feed it with evolutionary-relevant foods, it's still important that our physical environment remains "natural" enough in order to sustain our natural body. So dream as we may we can't escape the fact that we're inhabiting a physical organism within a physical setting.
We are intimately entwined within an natural tether.
We can ignore this, but only to a point..