Would you know if you were a hallucination?
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Hallucination
- Thread starter The Hammer
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Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
I think there is more than one answer to this question
Did we take something before the hallucination happen?
Did the hallucination happen when we were very tired/sleepy?
Is the hallucination actually a glimpts in to an other reality?
Personally i do not have the answer to this.
stvdv
Veteran Member: I Share (not Debate) my POV
IF you know "who you are" THEN you know
VoidCat
Pronouns: he/him/they/them
I don't know...probably not
PureX
Veteran Member
Would an hallucination care?
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HonestJoe
Well-Known Member
If you were a hallucination, you wouldn't know anything. Your self-awareness means you're not a hallucination, certainly not by common definition. You could still be some kind of temporary creation of someone else's mind but I would see that as something somewhat more complex and involved than a simple hallucination.
My brother in law lives his life in a hallucination, he is paranoid schizophrenic and has no idea who/what is real or not.
I speak to him several times a day and can usually tell his reality from his hallucination, so i guess yes one could tell unless one is seriously ill.
I think I would know if I was a hallucination. I think, therefore I am. But you could be a hallucination and I wouldn't know it.
Hallucinations, to be consistent, produce a computational explosion unless there is a restriction on possible investigation.
In other words, to maintain the consistency of a hallucination would require either directing the intention of the hallucinator OR otherwise limiting their options because there are SO many different ways to investigate things.
That is why video games limit the range of things you can do. To compute out all possibilities on the fly for even one person who is curious would reveal inconsistencies or canned results too quickly.
There are no hallucinations that are extended and detailed enough to compete with reality.
In other words, to maintain the consistency of a hallucination would require either directing the intention of the hallucinator OR otherwise limiting their options because there are SO many different ways to investigate things.
That is why video games limit the range of things you can do. To compute out all possibilities on the fly for even one person who is curious would reveal inconsistencies or canned results too quickly.
There are no hallucinations that are extended and detailed enough to compete with reality.
