A video game is not a reality. It’s a past time. Watching a television show, reading a book or making some art is also not an alternate reality. You’re still in the same place.
You have an avatar. You have a goal. You do stuff and try to get stuff and try to avoid stuff… You feel real emotions. That sure sounds like a reality.
I mean, I work and play Dota 2, but I don’t do them at the same time ever.
After working, my method is plugging my peripherals into my desktop, and firing it up while my work laptop shuts down. (thx for reminding me that I should look at KVM switches for Black Friday…)
Consciousness. Reality(ies) doesn’t actually exists out there¹. They are the construct that you form and manipulate inside your head. So, when you choose, or are compelled by senses, to manipulate a different set of constructs, then you’ve changed realities. This is also why we say that different individuals and groups of individuals live different subjective and social realities.
1: We have reasons to infer and believe that it actually does but ontologically speaking, it might as well don’t.
“consciousness” isn’t exactly a method. Can you describe it differently? What exactly am I doing here? How am I picking a different set of constructs to manipulate?
Isn’t this attention? Essentially you give something ‘life’ by paying attention to it (I’m rusty but I think that’s strictly a relative phenomenon, of course it doesn’t live, etc. I think this is something in philosophy?)
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