Language works when we think the same, connecting the words to the same meanings and such. But that never actually happens 100%. It might be closer to 80%. (or if it’s a strange subject, 15%)

So this “conversation” that we’re having here is, to some degree, not actually happening.

But we pretend that it is.

So how much are we pretending? How much of the conversation is hallucinatory conversation?

  • Spiderwort@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
    2·
    9 hours ago

    How does it overcome the threat of achieving merely a logically consistent fantasy? (A chinese room situation)

    • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeMEnglish
      1·
      6 hours ago

      Would that not depend on how many layers there are to the fantasy? Many have wondered if we’re all living something they may call a matrix or dream. But what, then, is on the outside of it? The “top” layer or most “external” layer of a rabbit hole is going to be what we can call reality in its purest, rawest form, no matter how dream-like or matrix-like we might think of it as. Everything is defined by this layer if nothing is beyond it.