02-03-2013, 07:02 PM
My point of the argument is that you cannot feel, cannot truly experience what's going on in the Net. Prostitutes still exist, not just robotic wang-rubbers. Humans have a strong desire for human contact. People WANT to be around other people, and sometimes that's just not enough online.
We need to touch, feel, have intimate contact. Not only that, but humanity CRAVES novel nervous input. We drink, we do drugs, we exercise for the sheer joy of feeling the burn of it. Hell, how many physical hobbies do we have NOW even though we can do them virtually? Music, art, all of that we can synthesize in far more efficient and interesting ways than can be done with a physical form, but we still cling to physicality.
People still want to see live sports events, even though it's a far inferior experience to just watching the broadcast (we do that now, all the time. It's like, 500 dollars to go to a football game, despite the shit food, cold weather and the inability to actually tell what the hell is happening), people still want to be able to physically meet their friends and loved ones.
Hell, how many people have relationships that start on the internet? It's just not enough. It has to be REAL. And, as advanced as the Net will ever get, it just isn't real. No matter how realistic or whatever, you can't feel anything and that starkly contrasts it to the waking world.
We need to touch, feel, have intimate contact. Not only that, but humanity CRAVES novel nervous input. We drink, we do drugs, we exercise for the sheer joy of feeling the burn of it. Hell, how many physical hobbies do we have NOW even though we can do them virtually? Music, art, all of that we can synthesize in far more efficient and interesting ways than can be done with a physical form, but we still cling to physicality.
People still want to see live sports events, even though it's a far inferior experience to just watching the broadcast (we do that now, all the time. It's like, 500 dollars to go to a football game, despite the shit food, cold weather and the inability to actually tell what the hell is happening), people still want to be able to physically meet their friends and loved ones.
Hell, how many people have relationships that start on the internet? It's just not enough. It has to be REAL. And, as advanced as the Net will ever get, it just isn't real. No matter how realistic or whatever, you can't feel anything and that starkly contrasts it to the waking world.
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