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Player & avatar
If life is a video game, someone is playing, someone is being played, and the tutorial is too long.
This hangs on Games as models.
See on the treeDecember 2019: “If life is a video game, the graphics are great, but the plot is confusing & the tutorial is way too long.” The conditional is doing work. He does not say it is. He says what would follow if it were.
Same day: we are literally a brain in a vat, and the vat is the skull. That second sentence does not require a simulator. It only requires nerves. Together the two posts hold a fork: either the vat is biology, or the vat is a machine, and from the inside the graphics are similar.
Player, avatar, developer: those roles only become empirical if we find the menu. Until then they are a way of asking who is looking.
If life is a video game, the graphics are great, but the plot is confusing & the tutorial is way too long
We are literally a brain in a vat. The vat is your skull. Everything you think is real is an electrical signal. Feels so real though.
Hangs on
Sister worlds
- MythEngine. Game or myth, lived from the inside.