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>> The internet is the illusion. > I mean, you're a real person that wrote this, and I'm a real person replying to you. No one of this is not real. I agree that it's all real, but I do say: there is so much less basis of experience gained from interacting with one another on the internet today are much smaller. I would say our experiences gained are very much "less real" because of that. We're not going to recognize one another the next time we cross paths, in all chance, we're not going to have anywhere near the visual or auditory recognition or pattern matching an in-the-world encounter would have brought. The internet is real, people on it are real, but our experiences here are extremely glancing, only the most bare, stripped down contacts, and most of us interact with each other on a near-effectively-anonymous basis, as though everyone were wearing masks & using text-to-speech systems, wearing the same plain clothes. The bandwidth of experience we have with one another in these interactions is extremely tiny. The internet & online communications is real, it is not an illusion. But nearly everything that happens here comes almost entirely out of context. It relies on us to access our pre-established bits of context to understand & discern meaning. The receiver here has far far far more power than the sender, and the sender has very few signals or images at their disposal to establish themselves, comparatively. The internet today really feels like a forest in which the inhabitants, almost universally, remain in the dark. |