Human and Reality

A Human life can be seen like a role-playing game, as the character gains more experience and levels higher in rank usually indicating by numbers, and this can create two very separate realities for one individual. The way I would define reality is what the brain constructs the environment in which we perceive as the laws of the universe. Virtual reality is a man made reality in which laws and physics are constructed to fit its own universe. Reality is what shapes us of who we are because we are confined within in its limits of the perceivable world. But as much as the physical reality shapes us, so too does the gaming world with its own language and physics because it influences us to think in that universe’s manner. A role-playing game can form communities and shooting games can create aggression. These characteristics have as much influences on us as physical reality can construct social groups, friends, and social norms. For many people, games aren’t “games”, instead, they are their own reality where their in some sense free on the physical world.  

Why wouldn’t anyone want to live in a game where you, the player, control the surroundings? We can’t automatically fly with a thought, but with a game we probably can. This reminds me of the movie “Inception” where Cobb can create his own world, but later realizes he missed the physical world. Games or virtual reality can’t offer us the same sensations as we feel in physical reality, however it can come close. We use all these different cues (stimuli that gives us an idea of the world) to help guide our mind and these offer us bodily sensation to which we can feel (anxiety, relaxation, fear, happiness) to a level that can’t be perceived in virtual reality. We want to control, but the cost of that would let us loose a lot of our sensations, in which many ways rewards us of the feeling of being alive.