Reading Ourselves to Death — The New Atlantis
Update: 2023-11-27
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Join me in a thought experiment. Imagine you are imprisoned in a room by a despotic regime and allowed contact with the outside world only through a primitive computer. Called a text-only terminal, the computer lets you send and receive as many written messages as you like. It lets you read as many articles as you like. But it can’t display images or videos of any kind, nor play any sound. The only understanding you would have of the reality beyond your four walls — aside from the trays of food slid under the door — comes from the words on your screen.
From the Symposium:
Saving the Real
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Originally From https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/reading-ourselves-to-death
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