I tend to regard computers as being part of the outside world. That’s why your initial comment confused me.
Still, your point that brain emulators in a matrix could live very rich, fulfilled, and happy lives that fulfill all basic human values, even if they rarely interact with the world outside the computers they inhabit, is basically sound.
That and I explained it badly. And I may or may not have originally meant wireheading and just convinced myself otherwise when it suited me. I can’t even tell.
I tend to regard computers as being part of the outside world. That’s why your initial comment confused me.
Still, your point that brain emulators in a matrix could live very rich, fulfilled, and happy lives that fulfill all basic human values, even if they rarely interact with the world outside the computers they inhabit, is basically sound.
That and I explained it badly. And I may or may not have originally meant wireheading and just convinced myself otherwise when it suited me. I can’t even tell.