(January 11, 2017 at 9:34 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(January 11, 2017 at 9:29 pm)Stimbo Wrote: You're no more running around a computer-generated landscape looking at computer-generated objects than you are injured by computer-generated bullets. I have personally flown to a simulated Moon in a simulated spacecraft that, no matter how sophisticated the graphics and the application of real-world physical laws, still gets me no nearer to being an astronaut than does dreaming.
What's this "real-world physical laws" you are talking about? Have you established the world really to be as you see it? I don't think so, and I'd really like to see you try to do so.
Little things like gravity, ballistics, orbital mechanics, aerodynamics, friction, and other likewise known and repeatable minutiae. Stuff that, so far at least, have demonstrated such reliability that you can trust your life to them, would certainly notice if they suddenly stopped working, and can be modelled mathematically with exquisite precision.
You know, the things that make up your video games.
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