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Virtual Great Migration
Anyone who sees an impending storm should alert others. And I saw the storm coming.

The next generation or two will have many more people, even hundreds of millions of people immersed in virtual worlds and online games. Once we play the game, outside the game, things in "reality" don't happen anymore, at least not in the way they do now. When millions of man-hours are withdrawn from society, something mega-event is bound to happen.



——Edward Castronova, "The Great Migration to the Virtual World"



When I put on the Steam Index and entered "Half-Life: Alyx", I saw the towering tower in front of me, and the sound of the aircraft sounded in my ear, the boundary between virtual and reality was broken at that moment. There has never been a moment when I felt as deeply as now the pulse of the "Great Migration to the Virtual World" in the long river of history hit my senses.

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Half-Life: Alyx

Zhuang Zhou Mengdie
"In the past, Zhuang Zhou dreamed of a Hu Die, a vivid Hu Die, and self-proclaimed that it is suitable for you! I don't know Zhou. If you suddenly realize it, you will be like Zhou. I don't know that Zhou's dream is Hu Die, and Hu Die's dream is Zhou?? Zhou and Hu Die, then you must There is a difference. This is called materialization."

Did Zhuang Zhou turn into a butterfly in a dream, or did a butterfly turn into Zhuang Zhou in a dream?

Coincidentally, Hilary Putnam in the West proposed the illusion of "brain in a vat": if a brain is soaked in a vat full of some kind of nutrient solution, and a powerful computer interacts with it with various sensory information, then The brain will think that it is living in a real world. Think about it: do we just exist in a "jar" as a "consciousness"?