it's striking how well the "online versus real life" false dichotomy has persisted, and specifically that the phrase "real life" is still used as conceptual shorthand what does this say about human nature and internet experiences
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makes me wonder when 'imagination' became a concept.https://www.amazon.com/Rational-Imagination-Alternatives-Reality-Bradford/dp/0262524740 …
in boethius it’s one level up from sensation, one level down from thought iirc
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I started to imagine what it was like to imagine for a non human, found that one of leading starcraft AI's literally run simulations of reality. Then there was this https://deepmind.com/blog/announcements/deepmind-and-blizzard-open-starcraft-ii-ai-research-environment … and this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp-YOPcjkFw … and now I imagine someone else imagining imagining IRL.
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hot take: thought is just self-awareness applied to imagination.https://twitter.com/Plinz/status/1179598008440147968 …
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