There's no denying that Minecraft is a game full of philosophical beauty that will always make you think about where I'm coming from and where I'm going.
As the sun rises and sets in Minecraft every day, people always wonder what kind of world this is. Is it a virtual world, or is it a real world?
In fact, this problem can be explained by a classic philosophical method of thinking: "skepticism".
At the heart of this philosophical approach is the questioning of everything that can be doubted.
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The author of skepticism was called "Descartes", a 17th-century French philosopher. He first made this idea in the First Philosophical Meditations.
Descartes believed that only by doubting everything can we find what is truly unquestionable.
This idea resonated widely in Europe at the time.
It became part of the enlightenment of that era.
Descartes' skepticism was also a challenge to the authority of the medieval church and scholasticism,
And even to some extent it paved the way for the development of modern science.
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Sensory skepticism:
At its core, Cartesian skepticism questioned the reliability and authenticity of human knowledge.
The birth of the human world is, to put it bluntly, a world produced by images and rational cognition composed of human sensory organs.
Is it possible that everyone's perception of the world will be misled by the unreliable human senses and different knowledge and experience, and thus become unreliable and false?
If you have actually played Minecraft, then this phenomenon of sensory doubt is actually everywhere! Human beings are limited in the external things that they perceive through various senses of sight, touch, etc., and they may or may not exist. But the world that people can see as it itself may be a real and inferior copy.
Perhaps the world of Earth seen by humans is the same as the world of Minecraft seen through the eyes of Steve in Minecraft. It's real, but it's false.
The world of Minecraft is real to Steve, and to you and me is nothing more than a fake game world.
The real world is real to you and me, and false to someone who may be sitting in front of a computer running an Earth Online simulation game.
The guy who was playing Earth Online felt like he was real, but he was nothing more than a little experiment in a kindergarten in a higher dimensional world......
It's like a matryoshka doll, and in the end, no one knows who is the most real in the world.
But Qadir's skepticism gives us the answer: "I doubt, therefore I think, I think, therefore I exist." ”
So if Steve in Minecraft starts to have the ability to think about whether the world of the cube is real or not, then everything is real.
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Dream Suspicion:
When dreams are real enough, it's hard to know that we're dreaming. How can one distinguish reality from illusion?
Kadir's "skepticism" further casts doubt on the distinction between reality and dreams, suggesting that we may have been living in dreams all along. But dreams and imaginations can be real, but they can also be illusory. Therefore, reality, dreams, and imagination must be treated dialectically using methods such as intuition, reasoning, and proof.
This view sparked a discussion about the nature of reality and became the inspiration for later fictional realist literature. His dream skepticism has also sparked philosophical and psychological discussions about the human conscious and subconscious.
"Minecraft" actually uses such a discussion of reality and fantasy that is full of "dreams". This node is the moment the player kills the ender dragon and jumps back to the portal.
终末之诗开启，一句“wake up”，
Wake the player up from a dream.
At this moment, each of us is "wondering", is this adventure really a long-lasting dream? I am just surviving in a trance dream for a long, long time.
And when we use practice to dialectize, we find that in fact, whether it is a dream or reality, everything we encounter has truly left traces in this world.
这让我想到了那个著名的悖论：缸中之脑 Brain in a vat。
Suppose that a brain is placed in a vat filled with nutrient solution to maintain its physiological activity, and the supercomputer transmits various neural electrical signals to the brain through nerve endings, so that the world experienced by the brain is actually a simulated reality created by the computer. So, can this brain realize that it is living in virtual reality?
Dream back to more than 300 B.C.,
"The former Zhuang Zhou dreamed of a butterfly, a lifelike butterfly, self-metaphor for the ambition and, I don't know Zhou. Oh Ran Jue, then Qi Qi Ran Zhou also. I don't know that the dream of Zhou is a butterfly, and the dream of a butterfly is a week and a butterfly, and Zhou and a butterfly must be separated. This is called materialization. ”