I have been designing a VR environment, which does not exist in the real world. There is a chance, however, that it might one day exist in the real world.<\/p>\n
I am not sure how to classify my experience of walking around within and spending time exploring this environment. What relationship does it have to my experience of the physical world?<\/p>\n
If this VR environment never gets built in the physical world, then it is merely a thing of exploration and conjecture. Like any novel or movie, it exists only in the collective minds of those who experience it.<\/p>\n
But what if it does end up getting built? What if it eventually becomes a physical place where I end up living some fraction of my actual life?<\/p>\n
Will that retroactively change the meaning of my current experience? Will I have, in some real sense, gotten a jump on living in my future life?<\/p>\n
And what if my VR experience today causes me to make a change in the design or construction of that future physical place? It would be fascinating if a sensorily immersive yet entirely imaginary experience of today should end up causing a significant change to how I physically inhabit my future reality.<\/p>\n
As VR becomes an increasingly common part of our everyday lives, I suspect that such questions will become more important. They may eventually become central questions of our existence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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