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by willob33 1643 days ago
Yeah let me know when the designer drugs that build the cognitive awareness of AR, without all the dumb gadgets, are available.

I’m sure we could simulate experience through detailed hallucinations, methods that leave behind the neural structures, reinforcing belief through social story telling. That’s how religion worked.

Everyone is obsessed with making experience happen through technology as if it’s more real to our memory down the road, when it never happened for anyone who wasn’t there.