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"Realityâ may just be a boundary we canât see past.
Sebastian Junger ⢠In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
But a shift has happened nonetheless: the Internet used to reflect our real-world lives and the physical world. Increasingly, our real lives and physical worlds are just a reflection of our digital ones.
Antonio Garcia Martinez ⢠The Glory of Achievement
These days, Iâd argue that cyberspace is a consensual reality. An online store like Amazon is just as real as one of Walmartâs brick-and-mortar stores. Amazon is a full-blooded institution that helps structure our reality.
David Chalmers ⢠Our Virtual Lives Are Real Lives
The shock weâre experiencing now canât be summarized as present shock, which happens when we become blindly obsessed with the present moment. Nor is it a form of future shock, which happens when we feel that change is taking place too quickly. Instead, the shock weâre feeling today is an affront to our most basic understanding of reality. And the m... See more
đĄ Shock and Awe
Under those conditions, the ego is primarily concerned with predicting every outcome of every situation, because it is overfocused on the outer world and feels completely separated from the 99.99999 percent of reality. In fact, the more we define reality through our senses, the more this reality becomes our law.