Educational Gaming Commons

Gerry Santoro

PSU, IST

The Virtuality of Human Reality

• All human reality is virtual.
  
  (Personal note: Castronova in Synthetic Worlds argues the opposite - everything is real, including virtual reality. It's real if it's important to you.)
• Everything you experience is filtered through your brain.
• Plato's Allegory of the cave is an example of this. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Plato%27s_allegory_of_the_cave...)
• Cognition involves feeling. Our brains don't separate them. If it feels like a puppy, it's a puppy.