The limitation of the virtual reality analogy is that while it illustrates how different observers can agree on what they observe without the observed objects existing independently, it doesn't fully explain how different observers can touch the same objects, travel to them, and verify them together.
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Unidentified Speaker — Conscious Agents vs Cognitive Agents with Donald Hoffman an… [xsy8p435DqM]Evidence Quote
“I feel like I can't quite make the leap to you know my experience in the world and so for instance the things that I have trouble with is kind of extending that to the idea that I can both see things and feel things and I can travel to those things that I see and touch them”
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