Cool, Im gonna check it out.
EDIT: The game is awesome. YouTube video
Originally posted by Quincy
Except me. I am very much real.
But are you really? For all we know you are a collection of thoughts and ideas, composed into one name by a person with the plan to form an ideal individual, devoid of the flaws of its creator.
Everything is relative, and even reality has bounds. What is real, and what is not is a question that people who use the Internet face every day. The truth of the matter is that nothing you see on the Internet is real. It is the expression of reality, but that doesn't make the state of expressing any less virtual. It's a technological utopia, but it's an artificial world non-the-less.
To think, or to claim reality is to not agree upon what is real and what isn't. I do not believe you are real, for you are part of the Internet and it is too easy to hide parts of the self to convince me that you are all of you.
Are you real? Not my idea of real.
Is this reality? Not my idea of reality.
What is reality? To be is to be real, but does that mean that all which is must be? Because you are, all forms of you must be? I believe you aren't, even if you might be. Not here, not now, not in this form. Am I? No more than you.
The hypothesis of reality is an ephemeral idea, and like all things will fade in time. Is this statement real? Is it true? You tell me.
"Vi veri veniversum vivus vici"
"By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe" - Doctor Faustus.
But you here is still you, although more of an extension of yourself. Just because it's less of you, doesn't mean it's lesser than you. All that you do, is done by you because it is in you to do so. You can't be someone else, because anyone you become must already have been part of you.
The only way for you to be anything other than yourself, is if someone else pretend to be you. You can't be more or less than what you are 😄 You can be different types of self, but you don't stop being you, just because it's not all of you 😉
Your argument is cut in half by our mere participation in this forum. Roleplaying is the very soul of being someone other than yourself, same as with acting. The core of evolution is that the self expand, this through experience and acting. If you are already all that you can become, then you will be no more ten years from now than you are right now.
I approve of the basis in your idea, that we have it in us, but that doesn't mean it can in any way define us, or make us out as what we act as. We have it in us to be anything, even God.
Your hypothesis is the claim that everyone is everything. That we all are God as much as we are ourselves. I believe we have it in us to evolve, but I don't believe we have the result of the evolution in us all along. We need to go out there and evolve through experience, not by looking inwards at what we already have.
The text you see on your screen isn't me expanded, or me of a different type. The text you see is the me I want to be, or the me I can become. I can not be more than I already am, but what I can be is an idea of what I can become, or what I wish I could have been.
This of course does not change the fact that none of this is real. It is the expression of reality, but it's not reality itself. You express the self to the best of your ability, but that doesn't mean that parts of yourself was lost amongst the keystrokes. You aren't all of you, ergo you aren't as real as you should be. You're only as real as the world knows you, and the world doesn't know you at all here.