Recently at school, my tutor (person who checks our attendance etc in the morning) asked us all a question about a very strange machine. According to our teacher, the idea was originally thought up by a well-known psychologist, although she did not mention his name.
This machine was one that you could step into, and experience anything you like, just like a simulator but better. You could go in, and experience the climbing of mount Everest, but when you got out again, it would be like you never did it at all. You would still remember it, you could tell everyone about your fake experience but it would not of actually happened.
Everything would be the same inside the machine as it is in your real life, if you requested it to be so. You could have all of your friends, with their personalities, memories and everything, it would be just like the real world, to the slightest detail.
There are a few flaws to this though, as mentioned, you could not of actually experienced these things in reality. Also, this machine isn't like Narnia, when you go in, the amount of time you spend in the machine is the same amount of time in real life, everything passes by as it would do. You could stay in for as long as you like, but you may miss out of key events in the real world, say a terrorist bombing or on a lighter note, the birth of a child.
The question we had to answer was, if we could go inside, what would we do? For how long? And all similar questions. I'm interested in what you would do and how you feel about this, I found it quite fascinating.
If there's anything you feel I have not cleared up quite enough, please mention and I will further explain it to you, I know it's a pretty broad subject. :/
This machine was one that you could step into, and experience anything you like, just like a simulator but better. You could go in, and experience the climbing of mount Everest, but when you got out again, it would be like you never did it at all. You would still remember it, you could tell everyone about your fake experience but it would not of actually happened.
Everything would be the same inside the machine as it is in your real life, if you requested it to be so. You could have all of your friends, with their personalities, memories and everything, it would be just like the real world, to the slightest detail.
There are a few flaws to this though, as mentioned, you could not of actually experienced these things in reality. Also, this machine isn't like Narnia, when you go in, the amount of time you spend in the machine is the same amount of time in real life, everything passes by as it would do. You could stay in for as long as you like, but you may miss out of key events in the real world, say a terrorist bombing or on a lighter note, the birth of a child.
The question we had to answer was, if we could go inside, what would we do? For how long? And all similar questions. I'm interested in what you would do and how you feel about this, I found it quite fascinating.
If there's anything you feel I have not cleared up quite enough, please mention and I will further explain it to you, I know it's a pretty broad subject. :/
