Very interesting subject @sauravrungta and very stimulating.
I would tend to think that many people would choose the blue pill preferring to live in the comfort zone of their "reality" rather than shake their reality or destroy it completely.
I say this because many of us humans are living in a specific comfort zone, even if this comfort zone is actually like hell and not comfortable at all, just because they are afraid to explore the unknown.
Of course not all people are like that, thats why we were able to explore the universe as well as the internet world. Through the individuals who do not fear the unknown, radical changes and further stimulated realities are born
I personally would like to have both pills at hand (not just one), take the red pill first and go to the real world to understand what happened and what makes it, then go back to the stimulated world to figure out solutions for the real world. I guess that is my scientist side of loving to find solutions speaking. In this case, I will probably need a pack or 2 of both types of pills to keep doing my experiments, LOL
However, there are a couple of questions that come to mind,
1- What if the stimulated world IS the solution WE (not machines or God or whatever) invented to be able to live in the real world without suffering too much?
2- Since the input and output of information for each human is different, this makes the perspective of each individual vary from so slightly to so much from each other. Does that mean these pills actually exist in 50 (or more) different shades, not only 2?
Thanks for sharing :)
In response to your question 1; If we had total control over the parameters of this simulacra, why is there still some suffering? Would it not have been eradicated entirely?
I guess that can be answered by answering "Yes" to the second question. People has been taking different shades of pill depending on their differences in perspective and imaginative abilities.
As the old saying goes "You can bring the horse to the water but you can't make the horse drink"
So let me see i follow this; the 'real' (outer) reality is some sort of traumatic wasteland and we've all voluntarily plugged ourselves into this subset reality in order to live in a bliss state for a while and ignore the pain of being conscious in that other one. That's an interesting idea, that it wasnt some nefarious AI or corporate conspiracy - that we plugged in by choice to avoid the suffering there. And we're about to do the same thing again from within this reality; the development of our own Virtual Reality devices....It's like a nested set of sub-realities that keep getting better in terms of enjoyment, pleasure and avoiding suffering? It's alchemical: we're continually refining and distilling the best parts of consciousness perhaps? I wonder how many iterations there have been?
Dear @fishsauce, That is a beautiful way of summarizing it.
Honestly, I think the iterations are not what really matter. The depth of each iteration is what makes more of a difference.
For example, the depth of virtual reality nowadays is so great that people tend to "want to" live in it more than living in their real lives. Games, social media, "reality" made-up TV shows, TV series and social platforms. What's even more pronounced is that younger generations are especially more susceptible to these things than older generations.
Just listen to what old people say about the way they used to play outside with their friends, while kids of this era are mesmerized by video games of all sorts.
Yeah, you are quite right. Many people would rather continue living in the make believe than face the reality or even try to comprehend it.