We do though. It's pretty easy to have an out of body experience within about twenty days of trying. NDE phenomena has just too much data to dismiss if you give it a fair consideration. We get glimpses that there's more when you dig into the latest from Nima Arkani-Hamed. Donald Hoffman is a bit more of a stretch but his assertion that there's no way we can percieve true reality is solid.
BARRET: Have y'all ever considered that none of this is real? That we're just part of some game, a simulation?
TIFA: Barret, what are you talking about?
AERITH: It's an interesting thought, though. Sometimes, everything does seem too surreal to be true.
BARRET: Exactly! Maybe we're just codes in a computer, or pawns in someone else's game.
CLOUD: Barret, that's ridiculous. Even if it were true, how would that change anything?
CLOUD: We are living in a base reality by definition.
TIFA: Cloud's right. Whether it's a simulation or not, this is our reality. We have to deal with it.
AERITH: Maybe the real question should be, what can we do to make this reality better?
BARRET: Hmph, you're all just too afraid to face the truth. But mark my words, one day you'll see.
Those aren't people. They're characters in a video game, and so aren't having a conversation.
No, we are not? I am confused what definition you are using. If the Matrix were real, you would say the Matrix is base reality?
I think his point is that even if we're technically in a simulation, we very likely do not have access to any exterior world.
Thus, in some sense, this is base reality "by definition" - that reality beyond which you cannot find anything else.
I don't agree, but it's a reasonable way to think about it (if that is in fact what OP meant).
We do though. It's pretty easy to have an out of body experience within about twenty days of trying. NDE phenomena has just too much data to dismiss if you give it a fair consideration. We get glimpses that there's more when you dig into the latest from Nima Arkani-Hamed. Donald Hoffman is a bit more of a stretch but his assertion that there's no way we can percieve true reality is solid.
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